Lead Performance Engineer

About the role

Emirates Group is looking for a Lead Performance Engineer to join its Quality Engineering (QE) team in Dubai. The role ensures the performance, availability, scalability and reliability of a suite of products within an agile release train, and works with multiple stakeholders to build a performance engineering and testing strategy covering all aspects of the product, including cross-program dependencies.

Key responsibilities

• Design and execute complex test scenarios to ensure functional and code coverage and to spot performance regressions or anomalies.
• Establish performance baselines and identify key improvement areas.
• Take part in every phase of the performance engineering lifecycle for products in an agile release train.
• Review solution design and architecture, and suggest improvements to performance and reliability.
• Work with architects and product owners to keep NFR backlogs and define NFRs for each feature and epic.
• Collaborate with IT and business stakeholders to design workload models, and keep them updated.
• Help investigate and resolve performance and availability issues to reduce defects reaching production.
• Set performance gates in CI/CD pipelines and implement performance testing frameworks, training developers and testers to use them.
• Analyse performance test results using statistical analysis of data from multiple sources.

Required profile

• 8+ years of hands-on performance engineering experience, including testing, profiling and tuning of highly available, scalable mission-critical applications.
• 3+ years leading performance engineering practices for web, mobile and desktop products.
• Proven expertise in performance tuning and optimization, and in reviewing application architecture.
• Advanced knowledge of software architecture concepts and current technology trends.
• Experience across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), on-premises or hybrid, with Kubernetes, containerization and orchestration.
• In-depth knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, and familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD performance gates.

Required skills

• Proficiency with profiling tools such as YourKit and JProfiler.
• Load testing tools such as LoadRunner, Gatling and JMeter, and client-side tools such as Sitespeed.io, WebPageTest and Lighthouse.
• Monitoring and observability: APM, infrastructure monitoring, Open Telemetry, logging and tracing.
• Preferred: resiliency testing and chaos engineering, capacity planning, service virtualization, IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation), and Operational Acceptance Testing.

What we offer

• An attractive tax-free salary.
• Travel benefits, including discounts on flights and hotel stays worldwide.