Lead Performance Engineer

Role purpose

Key responsibilities

• Design complex test scenarios, establish performance baselines, and identify regressions, anomalies, and improvement areas.
• Participate in all phases of the performance engineering lifecycle.
• Review solution architecture and recommend improvements to performance and reliability.
• Maintain NFR backlogs with architects and product owners and ensure features and epics define NFRs.
• Develop and regularly update workload models with IT and business stakeholders.
• Investigate and resolve performance and availability issues to reduce production defect leakage.
• Set performance gates in CI/CD pipelines and implement performance testing frameworks.
• Enable development and testing teams to use performance frameworks; provide improvement feedback to the Senior Principal Performance Engineer.
• Analyze test results statistically across data sources.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on performance engineering, including performance testing, profiling, and tuning for highly available, scalable, mission-critical applications.
• 3+ years leading performance engineering practices for suites including web, mobile, and desktop applications.
• Proven performance optimization and bottleneck analysis; proficiency with application profiling tools such as YourKit and JProfiler.
• Experience with commercial or open-source load testing and client-side analysis tools, including examples such as LoadRunner, Gatling, JMeter, Sitespeed.io, WebPageTest, and Lighthouse.
• Strong architecture review skills and advanced knowledge of software architecture concepts, trends, and practices.
• Proficiency in APM, infrastructure monitoring, OpenTelemetry, logging, and tracing.
• Ability to create realistic data-driven workload models from logs, APM, system metrics, and user behavior, deriving concurrency, transaction mix, and traffic distribution.
• Experience with cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments; expertise in Kubernetes, containerization, and orchestration.
• Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases and ability to diagnose and resolve database performance issues.
• Familiarity with DevOps and performance gates in CI/CD pipelines.

Preferred skills

• Preferred: familiarity with resiliency testing and chaos engineering.
• Preferred: experience with capacity planning and resource forecasting.
• Preferred: knowledge of service virtualization and mocking tools.
• Preferred: exposure to Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or AWS CloudFormation.
• Preferred: familiarity with Operational Acceptance Testing, observability, and infrastructure and environment readiness.

Salary and benefits

• The posting describes the salary as attractive and tax-free but gives no amount or payment cadence.
• Travel benefits include discounts on flights and hotel stays.

Location

• The posting refers to joining the team in Dubai and describes Dubai as its home city.

About the team