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Performance Engineering Lead

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Toronto, CAN
Full-time
Onsite
$81,600–$115,200
Discovered 2 days ago
Performance engineeringPerformance testing and monitoringJMeterScripting and codingPerformance test automation and framework developmentWeb applications

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Customer and engineering responsibilities

  • Lead performance testing of production-like infrastructure with emphasis on automation and scale.
  • Promote performance-testing best practices for scalable and reliable services; advise engineering teams on performance and scale.
  • Analyze issues with tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, and Datadog; identify bottlenecks, recommend optimizations, and participate in root-cause analysis.
  • Collaborate with development, operations, and architecture teams on test results, solutions, workload models, and production monitoring.
  • Assess non-functional requirements, application architecture, and technology stacks to ensure performance coverage.
  • Improve production stability, availability, system design, and resource utilization using reliability engineering practices.

Technical leadership and team contribution

  • Evolve performance frameworks, tools, processes, and technical practices; contribute to technical vision and architecture.
  • Use meaningful metrics, identify optimization opportunities, and follow technology delivery, risk, and capacity standards.
  • Mentor colleagues, transfer knowledge, communicate progress, and collaborate across teams.
  • Conduct JMeter performance tests; work may include SRE-related chaos engineering, observability, and data strategy.

Experience and qualifications

  • Track record leading successful large-scale infrastructure projects.
  • At least 6 years leading performance test engineering and 5+ years testing or monitoring web applications.
  • Proficiency in scripting and custom code for performance testing; able to code using unit testing and iterative development practices.
  • Knowledge of network and edge technologies, Linux fundamentals, and system utilization diagnosis.
  • Experience with Agile, performance test framework development and automation, and large-scale distributed systems and data volumes.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, communication, and influencing skills.
  • Experience with some listed technologies: Azure, container schedulers, MySQL, Java, Python, JMeter, LoadRunner, Splunk, Prometheus, Dynatrace, or Datadog.

Role scope

Works independently in a senior or lead capacity on complex tasks, provides technical guidance, and may serve as an SRE subject-matter resource.

Primarily works at the platform product or pod level and typically reports to the Practice Lead, Site Reliability Engineer.

Pay

  • The stated base-pay range is CAD $81,600–$115,200; no compensation cadence is specified.

Work location

  • Work location is listed as Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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