Senior Performance Engineer
Astir IT Solutions, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA, United States
6 days ago
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Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source
Tech stack
Amazon Web Services
Application Performance Management
Microsoft Azure
Databases
Database Queries
Amazon DynamoDB
Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
Apache JMeter
NoSQL
Performance Tuning
Distributed Caching
SQL Databases
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Web Usability
Datadog
Cloud Platform System
Spring Cloud
Grafana
Database Optimization
Gatling
Caching
Reliability of Systems
Scalability Testing
Performance Monitor
Front End Software Development
Functional Programming
Cloudwatch
Api Gateway
New Relic (SaaS)
Appdynamics
Dynatrace
Elk Stack
Microservices
Job description
We are seeking a skilled Senior Performance Engineer with over 12 years of experience in performance engineering and application performance analysis. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in optimizing system performance, identifying bottlenecks, and improving overall user experience in distributed and microservices environments., * Conduct end-to-end performance analysis across application, database, infrastructure, and cloud environments.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and optimization opportunities.
- Troubleshoot application performance using AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Datadog, JFR, and YourKit.
- Perform JVM tuning, analysis, thread management, database query optimization, caching, and microservices performance optimization.
- Design and execute load, stress, soak, endurance, and scalability testing.
- Develop performance test scripts using JMeter, Gatling, and K6.
- Analyze performance metrics and provide actionable recommendations.
- Improve system reliability, scalability, and overall user experience.
- Perform frontend performance analysis using Lighthouse and Chrome DevTools.
- Optimize Core Web Vitals, web rendering, CDN, and browser performance.
- Build dashboards and observability solutions using AppDynamics, Quantum Metric, ELK, Grafana, and related tools.
Requirements
- 12+ years of Performance Engineering experience
- AppDynamics (preferred)
- New Relic / Datadog
- RUM and APM
- AWS and Azure
- AWS services: ECS, EKS, Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, API Gateway, ALB
- JVM Performance Tuning
- Garbage Collection / Thread Analysis
- SQL & NoSQL database optimization
- Distributed caching
- Microservices and cloud-native applications
- JMeter, K6, Gatling
- Core Web Vitals
- Lighthouse / Chrome DevTools
- ELK Stack / Grafana
- Quantum Metric
- Performance monitoring, observability, and dashboarding
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