Senior Performance Engineer
Pearson
**About the Role**
We are seeking a Senior Performance Engineer to improve the performance and reliability of web, mobile, and API platforms. You will design and automate performance tests in CI/CD pipelines, analyze bottlenecks using New Relic, AWS Logs, and X-Ray, and create observability dashboards for real-time insights. This role also involves innovations and collaborating with teams to optimize system performance and user experience across cloud and microservices environments.
**Key Responsibilities:**
* Collaborates with product and technical teams to analyze, design, and translate non-functional requirements.
* Experience conducting performance testing to ensure system capacity, reliability, and scalability
* Hands-on experience analyzing reports and documenting observations to identify bottlenecks
* Investigates & reports project issues by communicating & working with various departments including Development, Product, Project Management, Systems & Application support groups, Network Engineering, etc., as well as other project teams
* Using workload information and performance results to identify and understand performance bottlenecks and provide tuning recommendations
* Analyzes slowdowns in frontend and backend, identifies root causes, and collaborates with teams for optimization.
* Extensive experience with JMeter, LoadRunner and other tools to test system reliability.
* Extensive experience with New Relic, AWS X-Ray, and logs to track system behavior and find issues early.
* Builds observability dashboards using LGTM and implements distributed tracing and instrumentation.
* Contribute actively to Performance Engineering CoE, Continues Improvement, Innovations, and Research
* Collaborates with cross-functional teams and leadership to ensure performance goals are met.
* Proven ability to work in a team and communicate effectively with all stakeholders
**Preferred Skills:**
* Experience with AWS cloud platforms and technologies.
* Experience with JMeter, LoadRunner, Sitespeed.io, NewRelic , AWS CloudWatch.
* Exposure with, Xray, GitHub, Grafana, etc.,
* Knowledge of frontend testing and optimization principles
* Knowledge of chaos engineering principles and practices.
* Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
* Ability to work with Java, Python, or similar language
**Qualifications:**
* Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or a related field.
* 7+ years of experience in performance engineering
* Strong experience of performance testing & engineering tools and methodologies.
* Experience with performance profiling, monitoring, and tuning of complex systems.
* Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
* Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
**Why Join Us?**
* Work in a cutting-edge technology environment with a talented and passionate team.
* Opportunities for professional growth and career advancement.
* Comprehensive benefits package and competitive salary.
* Be part of a company that values diversity, inclusion, and innovation.
If you are a dedicated performance engineer looking for an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our team and help us drive performance excellence!
1083321
**Job:** ENGINEERING
**Organization:** Corporate Strategy & Technology
**Schedule:** FULL\_TIME
**Req ID:** 18753
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