Senior Performance Engineer - Remote

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Egnyte is a place where we spark opportunities for amazing people. We believe that every role has meaning, and every Egnyter should be respected. With 17,000 customers worldwide and growing, you can make an impact by protecting their valuable data. When joining Egnyte, you’re not just landing a new career, you become part of a team of Egnyters who doers, thinkers, and collaborators are who embrace and live by our values:

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ABOUT EGNYTE

Egnyte is the secure multi-cloud platform for content security and governance that enables organizations to better protect and collaborate on their most valuable content. Established in 2008, Egnyte has democratized cloud content security for more than 22,000 organizations, helping customers improve data security, maintain compliance, prevent and detect ransomware threats, and boost employee productivity on any app, any cloud, anywhere. For more information, visit www.egnyte.com.

Our Performance Engineering team enables Egnyte to deliver high-performance, scalable, and reliable web applications. By meticulously analyzing, optimizing, and improving application performance, we ensure that our customers enjoy a seamless and responsive experience, even under heavy loads. This contributes directly to the overall success of Egnyte by enhancing user satisfaction, reducing downtime, and supporting the growth of our platform with robust, efficient software.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Develop tools to measure and monitor performance bottlenecks within web applications.
• Triage reported performance issues and create reproducible test scenarios.
• Collaborate with Production and Application Engineering teams to design and execute production scenarios for code and third-party performance assessment.
• Develop and run PSR (Performance, Scalability, Reliability) tests, and measure relevant performance statistics.
• Work with various sub-teams to ensure that SLAs for core APIs are tracked and maintained across releases.
• Conduct application and architecture code profiling to identify performance issues.
• Perform infrastructure and application performance tuning to optimize overall system performance.
• Troubleshoot performance issues, identifying and resolving root causes.
• Analyze large volumes of performance data to diagnose and solve performance problems.
• Perform capacity estimation, modeling, and planning to ensure scalability and reliability.

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in performance engineering.
• Expert knowledge and strong experience with performance testing tools like LoadRunner and JMeter, along with a deep understanding of APM solutions such as Grafana, AppDynamics, and Dynatrace.
• Hands-on experience with microservice architecture, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GCP, and application monitoring tools.
• Strong expertise in monitoring and analyzing application logs, database reports, and system metrics (e.g., CPU utilization, memory usage, network usage, garbage collection, and database parameters).
• Proven ability to identify potential performance issues and provide actionable recommendations for performance improvement.
• Proficiency in JVM technology with strong JVM troubleshooting skills.
• Experience in debugging large-scale applications in production environments.
• Expertise in JVM profiling, garbage collection (GC) analysis, and tuning.
• Extensive experience with performance, load, stress, and scalability testing.

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION

At Egnyte, we celebrate our differences and thrive on our diversity for our employees, our products, our customers, our investors, and our communities. Our recently launched global Egnyte Employee Communities (EECs) support representation and inclusion across our diverse workplace. Egnyters are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work and to appreciate the many differences that collectively make Egnyte a higher-performing company and a great place to be.