Manager, Performance Engineering

1 Month ago • 14 Years + • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

Coupa is seeking a Manager, Performance Engineering to lead their Performance Engineering Team. This role involves managing an agile team of 6+ engineers, hiring and retaining top talent, and defining the long-term roadmap and release planning. The manager will be involved in technical architecture and design decisions, collaborate with Product Management, Development Engineering, and Cloud Infrastructure teams to scale applications and infrastructure, and provide technical assistance to improve system performance, capacity, reliability, and scalability. The position requires proactive end-to-end cluster scalability, performance, and exceptions analysis, with a focus on continually improving the platform, process, and business. The manager will also act as an evangelist for performance best practices and tools.

Must have:

14+ years of experience in Performance Engineering
Domain expert on public cloud, distributed systems, microservices architecture
Experienced in Performance engineering design, implementation, and automation
Proven experience in performance, scalability analysis and optimizations
Experienced in distributed tracing tools/APM (New Relic, Grafana, Kibana)
Ability to support and mentor individuals and teams
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

Good to have:

Experience in gatling, AWS, AZURE, ruby/java, MySQL, Lunix, microservices
Good functional understanding of enterprise SaaS products
Prior experience managing Ruby on Rails development projects
Enterprise platform architecture

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Job Details

Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.

Why join Coupa?

🔹 Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend.

🔹 Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence.

🔹 Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other.

Learn more on Life at Coupa blog and hear from our employees about their experiences working at Coupa.

The Impact of Manager, Platform Engineering to Coupa:

What You’ll Do:

Lead the evolution of the Coupa Performance Engineering Team, to serve the need of our many functional teams and acquired applications
Manage an agile team of 6+ engineers
Hire, retain and motivate top talent on the team
Define long-term roadmap and drive release planning and execution
Be involved in technical architecture and design decisions
Work closely with peers to ensure successful outcomes and improve business processes
Collaborate with Product Management, Development Engineering, and Cloud Infrastructure teams to find the optimal way to scale applications and the infrastructure.
Provide technical assistance to improve system performance, capacity, reliability, and scalability.
Proactive end-to-end cluster scalability, performance, and exceptions analysis.
Continually look for opportunities to improve our platform, process, and business.
Be an evangelist for performance best practices and tools

What will you bring to Coupa:

At least 14+ years of experience in Performance Engineering.
Domain expert on public cloud, distributed system, micro services architecture and capacity planning
Experienced in Performance engineering design, implementing, and automating benchmarks
Proven experience in performance, scalability analysis and optimizations
Experienced in distributed tracing tools/APM such as New Relic, Grafana, Kibana to collect traces, metrics, and logs and create meaningful dashboards and alerts.
Experience in gatling, AWS, AZURE, ruby/java, MySQL, Lunix, microservices etc.
Ability to support and mentor both individuals and teams.
Good functional understanding of enterprise SaaS products
Ability to support and mentor individual and team
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
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Prior experience managing Ruby on Rails development projects Enterprise platform architecture

Coupa complies with relevant laws and regulations regarding equal opportunity and offers a welcoming and inclusive work environment. Decisions related to hiring, compensation, training, or evaluating performance are made fairly, and we provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees.