Lead Performance Engineer

About the role

Emirates 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 stakeholders to build a performance engineering and testing strategy covering all aspects of the product.

Key responsibilities

• Design and run complex test scenarios, establish performance baselines and identify regressions or anomalies.
• Take part in every phase of the performance engineering lifecycle for products in an agile release train.
• Review solution designs and architectures, and suggest improvements to performance and reliability.
• Work with architects and product owners to keep NFR backlogs and define NFRs for features and epics.
• Collaborate with IT and business stakeholders to design workload models, and update them regularly.
• 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 strong ability to review application architecture.
• Advanced knowledge of software architecture concepts and trends.
• Experience building realistic workload models from logs, APM data, metrics and user behaviour, and deriving concurrency levels and traffic distribution from production telemetry.
• Comfortable working across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), on-premises or hybrid environments, 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

• Tax-free salary.
• Travel benefits including discounts on flights and hotel stays worldwide.