Senior Software Performance Engineer - Remote (Eastern or Central Time Zone) or Hybrid | Cary, NC
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About the job
The Health and Life Sciences R&D Organization is looking for a Senior Software Performance Engineer, to join our team who will be accountable for designing, creating, implementing, and maintaining performance testing strategies across the HLS software products portfolio. You will collaborate closely with software developers, architects, technical support, product, and project managers to ensure the scalability, reliability, and responsiveness of our applications under various loads and help troubleshoot issues that might be impacting application performance in various test and production environments. You will also ensure the functional quality of the product while reducing time to market as we continue to release cloud-first, cloud-native, as-a-service offerings.
As a Senior Software Performance Engineer, you will:
- Craft, implement, and sustain high-caliber performance tests using LoadRunner and JMeter, automating them with advanced development practices.
- Deploy automated performance tests across the application stack, integrated within the continuous delivery pipeline, and deliver pivotal performance metrics for decision-making.
- Generate and scrutinize performance metrics to assess application robustness and foster insights that guide performance engineering.
- Collaborate extensively with cross-functional teams to embed performance considerations into all initiatives and expedite issue resolution through precise triage efforts.
- Act as a mentor and participate in code reviews, sharing expertise in performance testing tools and practices to enhance performance test scripts and infrastructure code.
- Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization’s secure software development goals.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience as a Software Performance Engineer.
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field, preferably in Computer Science or related field
- Extensive experience with load, stress, and performance testing using tools like LoadRunner and JMeter.
- Proficient in troubleshooting performance issues in various environments and maintaining CI/CD solutions.
- Strong knowledge of relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, Snowflake), networking, and web application server technologies (Tomcat, Nginx, Apache).
- Fluent with REST Interfaces, OpenAPI specs, and public cloud interfaces.
- Skilled in Kubernetes components, cloud provider offerings, and managing container image versions within registries.
- You’re curious, passionate, authentic and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.
Preferred Qualifications
- Technology Savvy: Leverage practical knowledge and understanding of recent technology tools, solutions, and trends to improve work results, solve work-related problems, and take advantage of new business opportunities.
- Initiating Action: Take prompt action to accomplish work goals; take action to achieve results beyond what is required; be proactive.
- Collaborating: Work cooperatively with others to help a team or work group achieve its goals.
- Decision Making: Identify and understand problems and opportunities by gathering, analyzing, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative information; choosing the best course of action by establishing clear decision criteria, generating, and evaluating alternatives, and making timely decisions; taking action that is consistent with available facts and constraints and optimizes probable consequences
World-Class Benefits
Highlights include...
- Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
- Medical plan options include...
- PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
- HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
- Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
- An industry-leading 401k plan.
- Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
- Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
- Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.
Diverse and Inclusive
At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our diverse workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers. Our commitment to diversity is a priority to our leadership, all the way up to the top; and it’s essential to who we are. To put it plainly: you are welcome here.
Additional Information:
To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights. Also view the Pay Transparency notice.
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