Associate Principal Engineer, Performance and Site Reliability
Core
Designing and optimizing cloud-native architectures to support billions of daily online transactions, ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability for enterprise software.
Role type
Associate Principal Performance and Site Reliability Engineer
Builds
Scalable cloud-native systems and performance testing frameworks for ISV market offerings
Domain
Cloud architecture, performance engineering, and enterprise software reliability
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
Java/.NET, SQL/NoSQL, event-driven architectures, performance testing (Locust, JMeter, Gremlin), observability (Splunk, NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana), database tuning (Oracle, DB2), OS tuning (Linux, Solaris), multi-threading, cache/memory management, HTTP/REST/JSON
Preferred skills
APM tools, AJAX, capacity planning, automation design, technical documentation
Technologies
Java, .NET, SQL, NoSQL, Locust, JMeter, Gremlin, Splunk, NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana, Oracle, DB2, Linux, Solaris, OProfile, VTune, LoadRunner, TestMaker, Silk Performer
Responsibilities
Design modern scalable cloud-native architectures capable of handling billions of transactions; orchestrate SLO/SLI design workshops and set performance goals; develop performance and reliability test plans across hardware/software tiers; review automation implementations and test plans for in-flight releases; coordinate technical presentations and training for capacity planning; report weekly trends on product performance and team status.
Seniority
Associate Principal, hands-on IC with strategic oversight