Accountabilities:

Performance Strategy and Benchmarking

Establish performance baselines for critical services, defining Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and measurable targets for latency, throughput, and error rates.
Develop realistic workload models based on production traffic patterns and actual customer behavior.
Define performance testing strategies that support scalability, reliability, and continuous improvement across the platform.
Conduct capacity planning to ensure systems can handle increasing traffic volumes and anticipated peak-demand events.

Performance Testing Framework Development

Design, build, and maintain a shared performance testing framework that product engineering and SDET teams can use consistently.
Create production-like testing environments using Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, including appropriate test data and configurations.
Evaluate emerging performance testing tools and technologies through proof-of-concept initiatives and recommend suitable solutions.
Establish reusable testing standards and best practices to improve consistency and efficiency across engineering teams.

Automated Testing and Continuous Integration

Integrate automated performance regression testing into CI/CD pipelines to identify performance degradation before production releases.
Establish performance thresholds and automated pass/fail criteria to maintain service quality.
Develop performance trend reports and monitoring mechanisms to identify emerging issues and track improvements over time.
Execute load, stress, soak, and spike testing to evaluate system behavior under different operating conditions.

Performance Analysis and Optimization

Investigate and identify performance bottlenecks across APIs, databases, message queues, and frontend applications.
Conduct root cause analysis using distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and profiling tools.
Collaborate with development, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to resolve performance issues and improve system efficiency.
Translate complex performance metrics into clear engineering recommendations and influence technical decisions across teams.
Evaluate distributed systems behavior, concurrency challenges, rate limiting, caching, and other factors affecting application performance.

Technical Leadership and Mentorship

Take ownership of performance engineering initiatives and drive continuous improvements in testing methodologies.
Mentor junior engineers and support their technical development through knowledge sharing, guidance, and code reviews.
Contribute to capability-building initiatives and establish engineering practices that raise performance and reliability standards across the organization.
Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to ensure performance considerations are integrated throughout the software development lifecycle.

Requirements

At least 5 years of professional experience in performance testing, scalability engineering, reliability engineering, or a closely related discipline.
Demonstrated experience identifying, investigating, and resolving performance bottlenecks in production-scale applications and distributed systems.
Hands-on expertise with at least one modern performance testing tool, such as k6, Gatling, or Locust.
Strong programming skills in at least one language, preferably Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Java.
Experience designing realistic workload models and implementing distributed load generation for large-scale applications.
Practical experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.
Strong understanding of root cause analysis across API, database, and message queue layers using metrics, logs, distributed traces, and profiling techniques.
Solid knowledge of REST API performance, distributed systems, microservices architecture, concurrency, caching, and common application performance bottlenecks.
Experience integrating automated performance tests into CI/CD pipelines, including defining measurable performance thresholds and pass/fail criteria.

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