Senior Software Performance Engineer

General Motors

Multiple Locations
Hybrid
Performance observability
Web technologies stack
Benchmarking tools
Own the performance observability for production and lower environments, identifying and acting on concerning trends

Job Summary

  • Own the performance observability for production and lower environments, identifying and acting on concerning trends.
  • Monitor, assess and analyze the holistic performance of the application with benchmarking tools.
  • Mentor junior team members and contribute to team growth and development.

Matching Summary

Own the performance observability for production and lower environments, identifying and acting on concerning trends.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Performance observability
  • Web technologies stack
  • Benchmarking tools
  • Performance testing tools (K6, JMeter)
  • Monitoring tools (Data dog, Grafana, Dynatrace)
  • Scripting languages (Java, JavaScript, Python)
  • Cloud & Container Ecosystem (Azure, Docker, Kubernetes)

Nice-to-have

  • Chaos Engineering tools
  • Caching layer performance tuning
  • Database performance tuning
  • SQL query optimization
  • Code-level bottleneck resolution
  • Cross-browser compatibility

Key Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
  • 5+ years of experience in Performance engineering
  • Experience with cloud-hosted applications
  • Strong technical knowledge of virtualization, storage and networking
  • Proficiency in profiling all layers of the Technology stack
  • Hands-on experience with Caching layer performance tuning
  • 5+ years of experience in performance engineering

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