[Hiring] Software Engineer - Performance and Tools @HealthEdge

Role Description

We are seeking a passionate problem solver to work as a Software Engineer in the Performance and Tools team to:

• Enhance and maintain in-house synthetic data generation tools
• Investigate performance issues in enterprise applications
• Develop, maintain and optimize performance scripts and test framework
• Validate and improve the scalability, reliability of enterprise applications and cloud-native systems

Key Responsibilities:

• Support quality and development teams with the test data generation requirements
• Learn in-house test data generation tool and enhance its capabilities
• Develop solutions with an AI-centric approach
• Design, develop, and execute performance test scenarios
• Troubleshooting performance issues by analyzing application, infrastructure, and database bottlenecks
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Collaborate with Development, QA, DevOps, and SRE teams to resolve performance issues
• Integrate AI/ML techniques into performance testing
• Integrate observability tools in performance analysis and related processes
• Perform Load, Stress, Spike, Endurance (Soak), Volume, and Scalability testing
• Create performance reports, reporting frameworks and provide optimization recommendations

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 3 - 8 years of experience in Software Development and Performance Testing/Performance Engineering
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments

Requirements

• Previous working experience with Python for backend application development
• Basic experience with JavaScript for frontend web-development
• Previous working experience with SQL and DB design principles and other database technologies
• Previous working experience with writing and optimizing SQL queries and analyzing database performance
• Previous working experience with AI tools like Claude, Copilot, and producing quality solutions
• Previous working experience with Performance Engineering concepts
• Hands-on experience with one or more of the following tools: JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, k6, Locust, NeoLoad, or BlazeMeter
• Experience with one or more application monitoring tools: Datadog, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, AWS CloudWatch, and Google Cloud Monitoring
• Previous working experience analyzing logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerts for root cause analysis

Preferred Skills

• Good knowledge of Java to troubleshoot performance issues
• Postgres SQL
• Knowledge of Ruby/Rails
• Good knowledge of AWS and GCP
• Good understanding of Git repositories and GitLab Pipelines
• Experience working with CI/CD environments
• Knowledge of APIs, Microservices, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills

Work Environment

• The employee is occasionally required to move around the office
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
• Work across multiple time zones in a hybrid or remote work environment
• Long periods of time sitting and/or standing in front of a computer using video technology
• May require travel dependent on company needs

Compensation

The annual US base salary range for this position is $123,000 to $132,000. This salary range may cover multiple career levels at HealthEdge. Final compensation will be determined during the interview process and is based on a combination of factors including, but not limited to, your skills, experience, qualifications, and education.