Principal Performance Engineer Job in Smarsh Inc

• In this senior technical position, you will be responsible for providing Performance Engineering technical direction to attain product reliability, scalability and maintainability for SaaS ( Cloud Native ) products
• You will lead the performance research and innovation. Involve in POCs and technical evaluations of technologies along with product architect.
• You will be responsible for planning and execution of the SaaS ( Cloud Native ) products Performance benchmarking as per business
• You will be responsible for defining the product performance Observability, Telemetry & Monitoring needs and implementing the necessary enhancements
• Participate in troubleshooting and root causing Production bottlenecks and scalability
• Leverage your customer experience to enhance the Performance engineering design strategy. Make repeatable continuous benchmarking through CI/CD pipeline
• Implement proactive measures to address the root causes around performance bottleneck, scalability, platform slowness and network congestion
• Responsible for defining product performance long term strategy
• Identify and review the Performance tools, frameworks. Define/design/develop new performance tools and crucial enhancements to existing performance framework
• You will be advocating and influencing for product performance improvement recommendation in key stake holder forum / meetings
• Provide technical leadership for product peak durations to manage the surge. Influence and guide SRE in implementing the required production deployment to meet required capacity
• Act as the bridge between Engineering design patterns & Production utilization and implement necessary improvements within engineering functions to close the right and left gaps
• Participate in Pull Request reviews. Provide and receive feedback for continuous improvement and approve the solution design
• Inspire the Scrum teams to embrace performance engineering guidelines in adopting performance profiling; component performance benchmarking within the sprint
• Interact and co-ordinate between different stake holders in Engineering/Architect/Delivery/SRE/PAAS/PM/Doc functions

Desired Skills & Experience

• Professional degree (Bachelor s / Master s) in engineering with consistent academic record
• Professional hands-on experience of 10 to 14 years in Performance Engineering development activities
• Strong analytical, design, problem solving skills
• Hands-on experience in debugging production bottleneck issues along with customer
• Demonstrated track record in breaking down the complex product architecture, business need and/or new technology domain and providing simplified solutions to team
• Mentor and coach team members on technical aspect
• Confident in complex determinate analysis, managing trade-offs between technical benefits, risk and efficiency
• Very strong communicator, critical thinking and natural in articulating complex technical topics and ideas to technical and nontechnical stakeholders
• Aptitude to unlearn and learn is a must

Must have skills

• Very strong on Container and Cloud Orchestration
• Good knowledge on Database and DB queries in Postgress & MongoDB
• Good knowledge on performance monitoring tools like Newrelic, Datadog, Grafana
• Good knowledge on performance profiling tools like Yourkit, JProfiler, JVisual VM
• Exposure to Virtualization, Cloud foundry, AWS, Azure and Unix flavors
• Exposure to microservices benchmarking and horizontal scalability

• Exposure to working in auto scaling, redundant technologies is a huge plus
• Familiar with Message Queues like RabbitMQ, large Storage Systems like S3, and NoSQL DBs is a plus
• Knowledge on additional tools NeoLoad/Loadrunner/latency tools and concepts around ELBs, GoRouters, Service Brokers, Diego cells and Cloud Controller is a plus
• Knowledge on Shell script/Python/ Terraform/Chef
• Being a cloud and/or PCF certified is a plus