Staff Performance Engineer
Company Description
ServiceNow is making the world of work, work better for people. Our cloud‑based platform and solutions deliver digital workflows that create great experiences and unlock productivity for employees and the enterprise. We're growing fast, innovating faster, and making an impact on our customers' and employees' lives in significant and important ways. With over 6,900 customers, we serve approximately 80% of the Fortune 500, and we're on the 2020 list of FORTUNE World's Most Admired Companies.®
We're looking for people who are ready to roll up their sleeves and help us build on our incredible momentum, our diverse, engaged workforce, and our purpose to make the world of work, work better.
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Job Description
What you get to do in this role:
As a Staff Performance Engineer, you will be a key member of the Product Quality Engineering team driving the performance, scalability and endurance of our products and services to the next level. You will work within our agile software development process and have an important impact on the products we built.
The ideal candidate for this position is someone with a strong background in performance testing /engineering involving enterprise software platform and applications. The candidate must have experience in leading/driving complex performance engineering projects that measure the characteristics of complex systems running under dynamic, real-world loads. You will work in a fast-paced, innovative environment that allows direct influence on the organization and our most important customers.
In this role you will create performance test infrastructures, execute performance tests, analyze results, detect performance issues, automate performance testing, monitoring and reporting processes.
Qualifications
To be successful in this role you have:
- 6+ years of experience with 4+ years of experience in architecting and driving performance testing / engineering projects and solutions. Proven experience with concurrency, multithreading, and distributed system architectures
- Strong hands-on technical skills and experience in developing performance testing strategy, performance testing process
- Proven skills in JMeter and/or other industry standard performance testing frameworks such as Load Runner
- Strong skills in monitoring & reporting frameworks such as Splunk, Grafana
- Highly skilled in DB SQLs, analyzing performance issues at DB layer and recommending solutions
- Skilled in scripting / programming with Java, Java Script, Python
- Ability to carry out root cause analysis of complex performance issues, analyze results and recommend solutions
- Solid understanding and experience with agile software development methodologies
- Ability and experience in working with globally distributed cross-functional teams to drive results
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with an aptitude for learning new technologies
- BS/MS Degree in Computer Science with proven experience in performance testing/engineering for mission critical software products & services.
Additional Information
ServiceNow is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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