Performance Engineer - Roles and Responsibilities:
- Defining the KPIs for enabling performance diagnostics and monitoring through the use of an Application Performance Management (APM) tool, Real User Monitoring and other diagnostic tools/ techniques.
- Developing dashboards and reports to provide ongoing visibility into the performance of eCommerce Site
- Identifying, evaluating, and recommending monitoring tools and diagnostic techniques relevant to the application architecture. Assess gaps in as-is monitoring tool capabilities and recommend tools to augment or replace.
- Review application's design to assess for performance risks and identify areas to apply past learnings and instrumenting them to enable performance diagnostics and monitoring.
- Collaborate with Engineering leads and product managers to review and refine application NFRs, SLAs, & KPIs to create acceptance criteria and performance budgets necessary to measure, validate, and improve performance.
- Collaborate with developers to promote the concept of performance engineering during all phases of the SDLC to detect and correct performance issues earlier in the lifecycle
- Monitoring application performance during performance tests or production usage through the use of APM and other monitoring tools to isolate the fault domain, dive deep into application code, and identify root cause of performance issues.
- Utilizing static code and dynamic code analysis to identify performance and maintenance concerns
- Profiling application performance from end-user perspective to inventory performance concerns and suggest tuning opportunities across the application stack
- Documenting performance findings and recommendations and authoring a performance backlog to work with product and technology leads.
- Interacting with development, operations, and DevOps teams to recommend solutions to remediate performance issues
- Participating in re-architecture, redesign, and refactoring decisions to satisfy performance requirements