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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