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Senior Performance Engineer

St. Louis, MO, US

1 day ago
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Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Performance Engineer with 8–12 years of expertise in performance engineering, particularly focused on diagnosing, analyzing, and resolving system performance issues across a variety of layers. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical skills in profiling, database tuning, application monitoring, and cloud-based microservices performance optimization.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Utilize 8–12 years of experience in performance engineering to assess and improve application performance.
  • Perform code profiling, database query tuning, and POD scaling to enhance system efficiency.
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot performance issues across UI, application, database, network, and messaging layers.
  • Conduct root cause analysis at the code level and recommend actionable performance improvements.
  • Work hands-on with application performance monitoring (APM) tools such as AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Datadog, Grafana, Kibana, and Splunk.
  • Perform performance tuning of microservices running on Kubernetes.
  • Manage and optimize applications hosted on AWS cloud infrastructure.
  • Integrate and run performance tests within CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab).
  • Design and execute performance testing scenarios including load, endurance, and scalability testing using NeoLoad, LoadRunner, and JMeter.
  • Monitor and analyze system/application behavior under load to identify and eliminate bottlenecks.
  • Develop custom utilities and enhance existing frameworks to support performance engineering activities.
  • Experience in AI/ML/LLM technologies is a plus.
  • Prior experience in the Healthcare domain is a value-added advantage.

Top 3 Must-Have Skills:

  1. Database Query Tuning and POD Scaling
  2. Expertise in Troubleshooting Performance Bottlenecks and Root Cause Analysis
  3. Proficiency with NeoLoad, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and AWS CloudWatch

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