Performance Optimization Engineer

4 weeks ago


Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada Highbrow LLC Full time

Job Title: Performance Engineer

Company: Highbrow LLC

Job Location: Toronto, ON (2 days/week onsite)

# Positions: 1

Employment Type: W2

Duration: Long term

Work Eligibility: All Work Authorizations are Permitted – No Visa Transfers

Key Technologies: JMeter, Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk, Java, Fiddler, SQL

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Formulate, implement, and uphold performance testing strategies and methodologies, ensuring alignment with project goals and schedules.
  2. Craft and develop performance testing scripts utilizing JMeter, Java, and Fiddler, ensuring efficiency, maintainability, and scalability.
  3. Utilize monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Datadog, and Splunk to assess, analyze, and enhance application performance, identifying potential bottlenecks and areas for improvement.
  4. Conduct garbage collection analysis, heap and thread assessments, and other diagnostic procedures to troubleshoot performance challenges and deliver actionable insights.
  5. Collaborate with development and operations teams to promote performance tuning initiatives, recommending and executing optimizations to enhance application performance, stability, and resource efficiency.
  6. Provide architectural expertise and guidance to ensure that application design and implementation are optimized for performance, scalability, and reliability.
  7. Establish and uphold performance engineering best practices, processes, and guidelines, ensuring consistent adherence by the team.
  8. Mentor and train junior performance engineers, fostering their skill development and career progression.
  9. Engage in continuous research to stay abreast of the latest performance engineering tools, techniques, and industry trends, integrating them into company practices as appropriate.

Required Skills and Experience:

  1. 2-5 years of experience in performance engineering, emphasizing performance testing, tuning, and troubleshooting. Strong programming capabilities in Java, with experience in JMeter scripting and Fiddler.
  2. Proficiency in performance engineering tools such as JMeter, Dynatrace, Datadog, and Splunk.
  3. Comprehensive understanding of application architecture, with the ability to analyze and optimize performance at system, database, and application levels.
  4. Experience with garbage collection analysis, heap and thread diagnostics, and other techniques for troubleshooting performance issues.
  5. Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins and GitLab CI is essential for automating performance testing within the software development lifecycle.
  6. Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes is crucial for optimizing application performance in containerized settings.
  7. Understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases, along with their performance optimization techniques, is vital for a performance engineer.
  8. Experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure is important for performance engineers working on cloud-based applications.
  9. Knowledge of load balancing strategies and content delivery networks (CDNs) is essential for optimizing application performance in distributed environments.

Education:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field; or relevant experience.



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