Performance Engineer
About The Client:
Client is a pioneering Software Engineering and IT consultancy company, transforming and executing at the intersection of Domain and Technology to create digital leaders for our people, clients, partners, and communities.
About The Job:
- We are seeking a Performance Engineer to join our SRE team in an individual contributor role.
- This position is focused on defining, measuring, and continuously improving system performance, scalability, and reliability through rigorous performance engineering practices.
- You will work cross functionally with business stakeholders, product teams, and engineers to define performance expectations for critical business services, design and execute performance and load testing strategies, and ensure our platforms are ready for event driven traffic and seasonal demand.
- You will play a critical role in embedding performance testing into the SDLC, advancing observability and automation, and helping the organization operate highly reliable, data driven systems.
Essential Job Functions:
- As a Performance Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, you will:
- Define performance, scalability, and reliability metrics aligned to business services (e.g., customer journeys, checkout, promotions, event driven sales, and holiday readiness).
- Design, automate, and own the end to end performance testing strategy, including load, stress, spike, soak, and capacity testing.
- Build and maintain capacity metrics and dashboards to support scaling decisions and cost optimization.
- Create clear, actionable performance reports and summaries for technical and non technical stakeholders.
- Leverage observability and monitoring platforms (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch) to analyze system performance and identify bottlenecks.
- Apply SRE metrics and frameworks such as availability, latency, saturation, DORA metrics, and service quality indicators.
- Contribute to automation initiatives that reduce toil and enable proactive or self healing responses to performance issues.
- Partner with engineering teams to identify performance risks early in the design and development phases.
- Advocate for performance engineering best practices and help raise performance literacy across the organization.
Qualifications:
The Performance Engineer has:
- Hands on experience with performance/load testing concepts and methodologies.
- Solid understanding of Site Reliability Engineering fundamentals and principles.
- Strong knowledge of core performance metrics, including identifying/testing latency, throughput, error rates, resource utilization, and threading.
- Ability to write performance test plans, capacity models, and write detailed performance reports.
- Experience participating in incident response and driving or contributing to incident reviews.
- Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go, DOTNET).
- Familiarity with APIs, distributed systems, and cloud native architectures.
- Strong analytical thinking and problem solving skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience with Infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (Terraform) is a plus
- Experience with ‘Load Testing In Production’ is a plus
- Experience with one or more load testing tools (e.g., k6, JMeter, Gatling, Locust).
- Experience with Salesforce, Cloudflare, or edge/CDN performance considerations
How to Apply: Interested candidates are encouraged to respond/submit their updated resumes, and for additional job opportunities, please visit Jobs In India – VARITE.
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| 6+ years | INR 10,000 |
About VARITE: VARITE is a global staffing and IT consulting company providing technical consulting and team augmentation services to Fortune 500 Companies in USA, UK, CANADA and INDIA. VARITE is currently a primary and direct vendor to the leading corporations in the verticals of Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, Hardware and Software, Digital Marketing and Media Solutions, Clinical Diagnostics, Utilities, Gaming and Entertainment, and Financial Services.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
VARITE is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
