🚀 Hiring: Performance Engineer
📍 Location: Dubai, UAE
🏢 Account: Emirates
🔍 Role Overview
We are looking for a skilled Performance Engineer to drive end-to-end non-functional testing, ensuring scalability, reliability, and optimal system performance across enterprise platforms. The ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in performance strategy, testing tools, and system optimization in complex environments.
🛠️ Key Responsibilities
Performance Strategy & Architecture
- Design and execute comprehensive performance and non-functional testing strategies for complex systems
- Conduct architecture reviews and define realistic workload models
- Validate system scalability, resilience, and operability across enterprise platforms
Performance Testing
- Develop and execute performance tests using tools such as LoadRunner, Gatling
- Perform client-side performance analysis using Sitespeed.io, WebPageTest
- Ensure end-to-end system performance across diverse environments
Profiling & Optimization
- Perform root cause analysis and debugging using tools like YourKit, JProfiler
- Identify bottlenecks and tune applications for improved efficiency and scalability
- Analyze platform, infrastructure, and configuration constraints
Infrastructure & Cloud
- Work across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments (AWS preferred)
- Troubleshoot performance issues in Linux/Unix and Windows systems
- Understand the impact of compute, storage, virtualization, containers, and orchestration
Monitoring & Observability
- Implement and utilize APM, logging, tracing, and OpenTelemetry tools
- Monitor performance, availability, and reliability across system layers
Database Performance
- Diagnose and resolve performance issues in SQL and NoSQL databases
- Evaluate downstream system impacts and optimize queries and database configurations
DevOps & CI/CD
- Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines
- Align testing frameworks with DevOps/DevSecOps practices and IaC models
Chaos Engineering
- Design and execute controlled failure experiments to test system resilience
- Experience with tools like Gremlin or Harness Chaos is a plus
✅ Required Skills & Experience
- Strong experience in Performance Engineering and Non-Functional Testing
- Hands-on expertise with LoadRunner, Gatling, and performance analysis tools
- Knowledge of AWS cloud environments and distributed systems
- Experience with APM & observability tools
- Solid understanding of database performance tuning (SQL & NoSQL)
- Familiarity with CI/CD, DevOps practices, and automation frameworks
- Exposure to Chaos Engineering principles is preferred