Roles & Responsibilities

•  Develop and use performance testing framework(s) and performance test-cases to simulate production workloads.
  
• Conduct performance testing and benchmarking of software applications to identify bottlenecks and areas for optimization.
  
• Prepare Venmo’s production system to scale for high-velocity events for the seasonal traffic.
  
• Work with development teams to optimize the performance of software, including improving scalability, response time, throughput, and resource utilization.
  
• Build performance-as-a-service to scale operations.
  
• Maintain a complex performance test environment with a mix of monolith and micro-service deployments.
  
• Automate components/applications deployments for the performance test environment.
  
• Collaborate with teammates on the planning and execution of initiatives.
  
• Provide detailed reports on performance tests, findings, and optimizations, and create documentation for future reference.

Required Experience/Skills

• 3+ years' experience in software development or a related field.
• 3+ years' experience tuning performance for production scale applications with performance testing tools such as Locust.io, JMeter, K6, etc.
• 3+ years of experience on Cloud technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Envoy, Hel, etc.
• Strong hands-on programming/scripting skills with Python, Java, Bash, and  AWS Lambda.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as code (AWS CLI, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet).
• Strong experience with DevOps practices and experience with tools such as Github Actions, Jenkins, AWS CDK, etc.
• Strong experience using tools like log tracing and application performance monitoring, e.g., DataDog.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to debug performance bottlenecks.
• Solid understanding of software architecture, including multi-tier applications and distributed systems.
• Understanding of cloud datastores such as DynamoDB, AWS DocumentDB, Cassandra, MySQL, AWS Aurora, Redis, Eand lasticSearch.
• Strong experience with AWS Cloud is preferred, but equivalent experience with other cloud providers such as GCP and/or Azure is also acceptable.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience.
• Certifications in performance testing or related fields are a plus.
• Any experience with Chaos Engineering is a plus.

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