Lead Performance Engineer

Role purpose

Responsibilities

• Develop performance engineering and testing strategy, including cross-program dependencies.
• Design and execute complex scenarios, establish baselines, and detect regressions or anomalies.
• Participate throughout the performance engineering lifecycle and review architecture for performance and reliability improvements.
• Maintain NFR backlogs with architects and product owners and ensure features and epics have defined NFRs.
• Build and update workload models with IT and business stakeholders for effective non-functional testing.
• Investigate performance and availability issues to reduce production defect leakage.
• Set performance gates in CI/CD pipelines and implement performance testing frameworks for product teams.
• Enable developers and testers to use frameworks and provide feedback to the Senior Principal Performance Engineer on framework improvements.
• Analyze test results statistically using data from multiple sources.

Required qualifications

• At least 8 years of hands-on performance engineering, testing, profiling, and tuning experience on highly available, scalable, mission-critical applications.
• At least 3 years leading performance engineering practices across web, mobile, and desktop products.
• Expertise in application and system performance tuning and bottleneck identification; proficiency with YourKit and JProfiler.
• Extensive load testing experience with tools such as LoadRunner, Gatling, or JMeter and client-side tools such as Sitespeed.io, WebPageTest, or Lighthouse.
• Advanced software architecture knowledge and ability to recommend performance improvements.
• Proficiency in APM, infrastructure monitoring, OpenTelemetry, logging, and tracing.
• Ability to create data-driven workload models from logs, APM, metrics, and user behavior, deriving concurrency, transaction mix, and traffic distribution.
• Experience in cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments, with Kubernetes, containers, and orchestration.
• In-depth relational and NoSQL database knowledge and ability to resolve database performance issues.
• DevOps familiarity and experience establishing CI/CD performance gates.

Preferred skills

• Resiliency testing and chaos engineering tools.
• Capacity planning and resource forecasting.
• Service virtualization and mocking tools.
• Infrastructure as Code and configuration management, including Terraform, Ansible, or AWS CloudFormation.
• Operational Acceptance Testing, including observability and infrastructure or environment readiness.

Salary and benefits

• The posting mentions an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits, including discounts on flights and hotel stays; no salary amount or pay cadence is specified.

Location

• The posting invites candidates to join the team in Dubai; it does not explicitly state an onsite, hybrid, or remote work arrangement.