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Performance Tech Lead

Overview
Skills
  • Groovy Groovy
  • Shell Shell
  • Kafka Kafka
  • PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
  • CI/CD CI/CD
  • Jenkins Jenkins
  • Docker Docker
  • Kubernetes Kubernetes
  • Dynatrace
  • Grafana Grafana
  • JMeter
  • Locust
  • Prometheus Prometheus
  • Pyroscope
  • serverless

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Performance Tech Lead to drive our performance engineering strategy and ensure our systems are highly scalable, reliable, and efficient.



This role is a unique opportunity to combine technical leadership, hands-on optimization, and cross-team collaboration, ensuring performance best practices are embedded across the development lifecycle


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As a Performance Tech Lead, you will define and implement performance testing frameworks, analyze system bottlenecks, and work closely with development, DevOps, and architecture teams to optimize application and infrastructure performanc

e.You will also provide performance as a service infrastructure, developing self-service tools and frameworks that enable development teams to independently run, analyze, and fine-tune performance tests based on their specific need

s.This role requires deep hands-on expertise, strong analytical skills, and a proactive approach to performance optimizatio

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. Your Role & Impa

  1. ctArchitect, develop, and scale performance testing infrastructure for load, stress, endurance/longevity, and scalability testin
  2. g.Provide performance as a service, building self-service performance testing frameworks that allow development teams to execute and analyze tests autonomousl
  3. y.Establish and enforce performance KPIs, ensuring optimal system behavior under various workload
  4. s.Conduct in-depth performance analysis, identifying and resolving bottlenecks in APIs, databases, agent, caching, and distributed system
  5. s.Lead the adoption of performance best practices, embedding them into the development and CI/CD pipeline
  6. s.Provide mentorship, best practices, and technical guidance to engineering teams, ensuring a performance-first mindse
  7. t.Enhance observability and monitoring capabilities, implementing APM tools like Prometheus/Grafan
  8. a.Analyze customers incidents, proactively identifying trends and areas for performance improvemen
  9. t.Advocate for a shift-left approach, ensuring performance considerations are addressed early in the SDL


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Your Experie

  1. nce7+ years of experience in performance engineering, testing, and optimization, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership ro
  2. le.Strong hands-on expertise with performance testing tools (JMeter, Locust, etc
  3. .).Proven ability to mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and instill best practices in automation and performance engineeri
  4. ng.Experience designing and implementing self-service performance testing platfor
  5. ms.Proficiency in , Shell Scripts, groovy or another scripting language for performance automati
  6. on.Expertise with CI/CD pipelines and automation toolchains (e.g., Jenkin
  7. s).Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, serverless), and microservices performance challeng
  8. es.Experience with databases (Postgres, serverless) and messaging systems (e.g. Kafk
  9. a).Expertise in profiling and monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, Pyroscop
  10. e).Proven ability to troubleshoot complex performance issues at the application, database, and infrastructure leve
  11. ls.Passion for continuous improvement, automation, and engineering excellen


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