Performance Engineer I

Role Overview

As DP World progresses in its mission of being a global trade enabler, we are looking for an engineer who loves working on a highly complex distributed web application. In this role, you will work with cross-functional teams to benchmark systems performance, find performance issues, and own performance test plans and execution for large-scale projects.

Responsibilities

• Design and development of performance test tools, framework, and automation.
• Design and execute performance test plans to validate system performance and stability.
• Analyze test results, resource utilization, and system metrics to identify issues and suggest improvements for capacity, reliability, and scalability.
• Work with developers, SDET, and stakeholders to fix performance issues.
• Design and conduct tests with complex workloads to expose potential bottlenecks and failure points.
• Validate fail-over/recovery scenarios and measure impact on response times.
• Derive performance improvement opportunities by analyzing production metrics and trends.
• Design and develop Performance Engineering aides like profiles, traces, or observability frameworks.
• Prepare performance test reports with observations and recommendations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 1.6-4 years of work experience in performance testing and analysis, preferably for large-scale distributed web applications.
• Experience in cloud environments such as AWS or Azure.
• Strong hands-on experience in at least one programming language with the ability to code independently.
• Strong experience with open-source performance testing tools and frameworks.
• Ability to recognize performance issues and risks in a distributed environment.

Skills

• JMeter
• AWS
• Azure
• Python
• Observability