Senior Performance Engineer

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Performance Engineer to lead performance engineering initiatives for large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native applications. This role focuses on designing and executing performance testing strategies, building benchmarking frameworks, optimizing system scalability, and ensuring production readiness for high-performance enterprise platforms. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Java, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, JVM tuning, and performance profiling within complex microservices environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and implement performance engineering strategies and best practices across enterprise applications
• Design, develop, and execute performance, load, stress, and endurance testing scenarios
• Build custom Java-based performance test harnesses to simulate real-world distributed workflows
• Develop benchmarking frameworks and production-like simulators for latency and throughput testing
• Validate production readiness of applications and infrastructure from performance and stability perspectives
• Align performance outcomes with business objectives and service-level objectives (SLOs)
• Lead development of performance profiling and instrumentation frameworks
• Analyze CPU, memory, request flows, utilization metrics, and deployment performance events
• Partner with Dev Ops and backend engineering teams to optimize service utilization and scalability
• Troubleshoot distributed systems issues using logs, metrics, tracing, and performance monitoring tools
• Perform JVM tuning and provide optimization recommendations
• Analyze thread dumps, heap dumps, memory leaks, connection issues, and throughput bottlenecks
• Architect and support large-scale performance automation solutions
• Drive technical direction and performance initiatives across engineering teams
• Mentor team members and contribute to performance engineering best practices
• Research and adopt new technologies related to performance optimization and scalability

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• Strong software engineering experience with core Java technologies
• Experience designing and executing performance and scalability testing solutions
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and asynchronous processing
• Experience with microservices architectures and cloud-based deployments
• Strong familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud environments
• Deep understanding of JVM internals, tuning, and performance optimization
• Experience with profiling and instrumentation tools such as Dynatrace, Datadog, or App Dynamics
• Experience analyzing thread dumps, heap dumps, and application bottlenecks
• Experience identifying memory leaks, connection issues, and throughput limitations
• Experience architecting large-scale test automation frameworks
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and debugging skills
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership abilities
• Ability to work effectively across engineering and product teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in capital markets, trading platforms, cryptocurrency, or market data systems
• Familiarity with low-latency systems and performance-critical architectures
• Experience with kernel bypass technologies such as Solarflare Open Onload
• Experience with low-latency messaging platforms such as Aeron, Solace, or 29
  
  West
• Experience supporting high-frequency or real-time distributed applications