About the role
Please note, this team is hiring across all levels and candidates are individually assessed and appropriately leveled based upon their skills and experience.
Performance Engineer at Netskope is responsible for optimizing the performance and efficiency of software applications, systems, and infrastructure. They play a critical role in ensuring that applications can handle the scale and the systems provide a seamless user experience. By conducting performance testing, analysis, and optimization, they contribute to the overall success and reliability of software systems
What you will be doing
- Plan, design, and execute performance tests to assess the performance characteristics of software applications and systems. This includes load testing, stress testing and scalability testing
- Analyze the results of performance tests and identify performance bottlenecks, such as slow response times, high CPU or memory usage, database issues, or network latency
- Collaborate with software developers to implement performance improvements. This may involve code optimization, database tuning, caching strategies, and system configuration changes
- Prepare and present performance analysis reports to stakeholders, providing actionable insights and recommendations for performance enhancements
- Assess application and system capacity to ensure they can handle the expected user load and growth. Work with the team to plan for future scaling needs
- Develop and promote performance testing standards, best practices, and guidelines to be followed by the development and QE teams
- Develop and maintain automated performance test scripts and frameworks to streamline the performance testing process
- Participate in design reviews and architectural discussions to identify potential performance issues early in the development process
- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, tools, and methodologies related to performance engineering. Continuously seek out innovative ways to improve application performance