Principal Engineer GCP

Job Description

• Define and drive the performance engineering strategy for cloud-native applications hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Serve as the subject matter expert for application performance, scalability, and observability across distributed systems.
• Analyze and optimize application performance across microservices, APIs, databases, and high-volume transaction workflows.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks impacting user experience, including patient data retrieval, historical data loading, and real‑time clinical workflows.
• Design, execute, and oversee performance, load, stress, endurance, and scalability testing using industry‑leading tools.
• Leverage statistical analysis and performance metrics to identify trends, forecast system behavior, and provide actionable recommendations.
• Collaborate with software engineering, architecture, Dev Ops, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), database, and infrastructure teams to implement performance improvements.
• Lead and mentor a team of 4–5 Performance Engineers, establishing best practices, technical standards, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Drive performance testing automation and integration within CI/CD pipelines.
• Present performance assessments, risks, capacity planning recommendations, and optimization strategies to technical leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Champion a performance‑first engineering culture throughout the software development lifecycle.

• 10+ years of experience in Performance Engineering, Performance Testing, or Application Performance Optimization.
• Expert‑level experience designing and executing enterprise‑scale performance testing strategies.
• Deep expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including cloud observability, monitoring, and performance optimization.
• Strong understanding of distributed cloud‑native architectures, microservices, REST APIs, and containerized applications.
• Experience analyzing application performance across databases, application servers, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
• Hands‑on experience with one or more performance testing tools such as:
  • Open Text Load Runner Enterprise (LRE)
  • Apache JMeter
  • Gatling
• Strong knowledge of performance monitoring and observability platforms.
• Experience interpreting large performance datasets and applying statistical analysis to identify trends and capacity constraints.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present technical findings to both engineering teams and executive leadership.
• Proven experience leading and mentoring technical teams in fast‑paced, high‑availability environments.

• Experience supporting healthcare, life sciences, financial services, or other highly regulated industries.
• Experience optimizing applications running on Google Cloud services, including Cloud Spanner.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud‑native deployment patterns.
• Experience implementing performance testing within CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with modern observability platforms such as Google Cloud Operations Suite, Dynatrace, New Relic, App Dynamics, or Grafana.
• Experience with capacity planning, resiliency testing, and production performance monitoring.

Discover some of the global benefits that empower our people to become the best version of themselves:

• Finance:
  Competitive salary package, share plan, company performance bonuses, value‑based recognition awards, referral bonus;
• Career Development:
  Career coaching, global career opportunities, non‑linear career paths, internal development programmes for management and technical leadership;
• Learning Opportunities:
  Complex projects, rotations, internal tech communities, training, certifications, coaching, online learning platforms subscriptions, pass‑it‑on sessions, workshops, conferences;
• Work‑Life Balance:
  Hybrid work and flexible working hours, employee assistance programme;
• Health:
  Global internal wellbeing programme, access to wellbeing apps;
• Community:
  Global internal tech communities, hobby clubs and interest groups, inclusion and diversity programmes, events and celebrations.

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