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Performance Engineer
Entertainment & Media Industry Company
Poznan, , Poland
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Description
At Company, we’re committed to a world that’s always learning and to our talented team who makes it all possible. From bringing lectures vividly to life to turning textbooks into laptop lessons, we are always re-examining the way people learn best, whether it’s one child in our own backyard or an education community across the globe. We are bold thinkers and standout innovators who motivate each other to explore new frontiers in an environment that supports and inspires us to always be better. By pushing the boundaries of technology — and each other to surpass these boundaries — we create seeds of learning that become the catalyst for the world’s innovations, personal and global, large and small.
Qualifications
Performance Engineer
We’re looking for a person with a passion for software performance and technical challenges, which is quality minded, capable to accurately analyze data using latest tools and techniques to provide reliable results. This position requires strong deductive reasoning, attention to detail, persistence, patience, and creativity.
Job responsibilities and focus areas
• Developing and influencing non-functional requirements
• Creating automated performance test scripts
• Testing and tuning the application performance
• Analyzing test results and creating performance reports
• Post deployment performance monitoring
• Providing technical assistance to improve system performance, capacity, reliability and scalability
• Evaluating system performance and recommending improvements
• Creating and developing testing framework
Desired skills
• Good knowledge of software engineering principles and current programming languages
• Know how to analyze performance test result and identify bottlenecks of web applications
• Deep knowledge of how web applications work over HTTP protocol
• Extensive experience with a load test application such as JMeter, Gatling, BlazeMeter or similar
• Strong knowledge of performance testing methodologies
• General comfort level in the following technologies:
◦ Java/Scala/Python/PHP/Bash
◦ Unix/Linux
◦ RDBMS and NoSQL databases
◦ Git or other version control system
• Experience with AWS automation, Jenkins, New Relic, Right Scale
• Problem solving skills with a strong attention to detail
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong statistical knowledge and analytical background
Experience and education
• A minimum of 3 years of experience as a performance engineer or senior developer in a software development environment
• A track record of successful performance test and improvement projects
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in information systems or computer science
• English - Professional working proficiency