Design With The Vision In Mind : You know how to take requirements and create PSR (Performance Scalability Relaibilty) strategy, plans and automation. Collaborate with Architects, Development, DevOps, Product owners, Infrastructure teams regarding performance engineering, design, and testing.Create Industry-Leading Products : Avalara is the market leader, and we intend on staying that way. That means we cant be complacent. Own key areas within our platform. And as owners, we encourage everyone to make bold moves and keep testing the limits.Provide Technical guidance and mentoring the performance engineers in the team, providing guidance on PSR Processes and automation.You + Avalara = Infinity : Avalaras vision is to be part of every transaction of every business around the world.What Youll Need to be Successful
- You have experience delivering valuable, features into production.
- You know whats fundamentally different about software designed for the cloud from on-premise, not because you read about it but because youve been knee-deep in SaaS.
- Expertise in application performance engineering and performance tuning with hands on experience designing and implementing load, stress, spike, scalabilty, volume, endurance, and soak testing. Expertise on multiple tools like Load Runner, JMeter, Gatling, K6, Neoload, NewRelic, DynaTrace, AppDynamics and similar tools.
- Good experience analysing Thread dumps, Heap dump and GC logs and performance tuning and providing recommendations to the development teams.
- Software development experience - While many parts of our solution are implemented using Dotnet and Java , we also have details of the product in node.js, python, and other technologies.
- As far as other technologies, we use PostgresDB, MySQL as our primary transactional RDBMS, and we are introducing many other cloud technologies Redis, Snowflake, and Prometheus. Streaming technologies like Kafka, Kinesis, and visualization tools like Grafana are in the conversation. And containerization using Docker and orchestration using Kubernetes. We are an AWS shop. A background in Azure or GCP is also welcomed.
- 12+ Years of experience in Engineering
- BE / B.Tech Education.
Skills Required
Performance Engineering, Load Testing, Performance Tuning