Senior Performance Engineer

The Senior Performance Engineer spearheads the strategy for application scalability, capacity planning, and resilience. They will lead end-to-end performance initiatives, working across functional boundaries to ensure our systems are robust, responsive, and reliable. From developing sophisticated simulation scripts to performing deep-dive root cause analysis on production-level bottlenecks, they will be the primary advocate for a seamless user experience. Primary Responsibilities: - Performance Strategy Frameworks: Lead the authoring and iteration of automated performance scripts and CI/CD integrations. Will own the instrumentation and telemetry strategy to ensure high-fidelity data capture. - Shift-Left Engineering: Partner with developers and analysts from day one of the SDLC. Ensure performance requirements aren't an afterthought but are documented and baked into the initial architecture. - Proactive Monitoring SRE Alignment: Anticipate and mitigate issues before they impact the user. Will leverage APM tools and profilers to maintain a pulse on system health and drive the resolution of complex concurrency and scalability bottlenecks. Key Activities - SRE Collaboration: Partner with Technical Services to establish SLOs and Error Budgets, balancing the need for rapid feature velocity with rock-solid system reliability. - Self-Service Enablement: Design and build continuous performance testing capabilities that allow developers to execute tests in a self-service capacity within their own pipelines. - Workload Modeling: Construct sophisticated workload models and simulations that accurately mimic real-world traffic to establish scalability benchmarks. - Architectural Scrutiny: Participate in design reviews to identify performance risks in system integrations, database schemas, and application logic. - Mentorship Code Review: Lead code reviews for performance scripts and artifacts, ensuring the team adheres to industry best practices and maintains high-quality test suites. - Deep-Dive Analysis: Utilize advanced profiling tools (e.g., Oracle Flight Recorder, JProfiler) to identify memory leaks, thread contention, and I/O bottlenecks. Full-Time Equivalent Hiring Range: $110,150 to $137,700; salary commensurate with relevant experience. Work Model: Hybrid. 3 days in-person required at the discretion of management.