Senior Performance Developer

About the Role:

As a Performance Engineer, you will work directly with our product teams and will be responsible for ensuring that new features and application changes meet performance requirements. You will create and maintain performance testing and analysis scripts using a variety of tools. Within your first year, you will develop an understanding of how to deliver high performing software at the pace of feature development. You will work in an environment that promotes ownership at all levels including delivery and monitoring in Production. 

What You’ll Do: 

• Develop new performance simulations at the pace of feature development through our built in performance test framework using Gatling
• Understand software architecture, debug issues, analyze log files, traces, dumps, etc. Using this knowledge to identify areas of improvement, and making infrastructure or code changes to improve performance
• Provide comprehensive performance test strategies to the product teams for the creation and execution of performance and load tests, and generate periodic performance reports for cross-team review
• Deploy microservices by spinning up disposable environments in Kubernetes to configure and execute performance tests
• Conduct performance profiling, identify key metrics for monitoring, and ensure high availability for our applications by improving capacity, reliability and scalability of the system performance and overseeing the life cycle, performing root cause analysis and suggesting corrective actions for issues
• Monitor, troubleshoot and run synthetic tests right in production, after having identified improvements and executing simulations

What We Look For:

• Knowledge in Agile methodology and API performance/load testing tools like Gatling
• Ability to analyze tiered web architectures, point out performance bottlenecks, limitations, optimizations and resolutions
• Experience with performance, scalability and reliability testing methodologies
• Experience with testing high quality, high availability customer facing applications
• Knowledge with  performance monitoring counters such as response time, throughput, latency, and memory
• Experience with Honeycomb, SumoLogic, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar observability tools

What We Offer You: 

• Competitive salary and stock option plan
• 100% paid coverage of medical, dental and vision insurance 
• Unlimited vacation 
• Learning stipend for personal growth and development 
• Paid parental leave
• Health & wellness initiatives

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