Description

Own end-to-end performance engineering across the software development lifecycle, diagnosing and remediating bottlenecks in high-volume transactional systems.

This role is hybrid.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose performance bottlenecks in application, middleware (JVM GC), database, and cloud components using predictive and real-time approaches.
• Design and execute workload modeling, capacity planning, and scalability assessments for systems handling 20K+ TPS.
• Partner with development teams to optimize Java and Spring Boot applications through load, stress, endurance, and resiliency testing.
• Implement performance monitoring, observability, and proactive alerting strategies using tools like Grafana and Dynatrace.
• Support cloud migration initiatives with performance-focused architecture reviews and establish performance engineering standards.

Required Skills

• 8+ years of experience in performance engineering, performance testing, and production diagnostics.
• Strong Java development background with knowledge of Spring Boot, Microservices, JVM/Garbage Collection, and Heap Dumps.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services including Auto-scaling, S3, EC2, CloudWatch, and cloud-native scalability patterns.
• Proficiency in performance analysis tools such as LoadRunner, Selenium, Grafana, and Dynatrace.
• Experience with DevOps and automation, including CI/CD pipelines, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Understanding of extreme-volume transaction systems and capacity planning.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in financial services, telecommunications, or healthcare with high-transaction environments.
• Knowledge of distributed system architecture and middleware such as Kafka.
• AWS Solutions Architect or Developer certification, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience.

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree