Performance Engineer
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Software and Services
At Apple, phenomenal ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there’s no telling what you could accomplish.
Apple Online Store is looking for a highly motivated Performance Engineer to join to our Engineering team. You will deliver projects sought at improving the hugely successful Apple Online Store's e-commerce experience and features - www.apple.com/shop
Description
At Apple, code and functional quality is always at the forefront and one of the key measures of Success.
As part of the AOS Performance Engineering team, your responsibilities ensuring that software, hardware, and systems are efficient and operate well working closely with application and service engineering teams, and interacting with product, design, content, QA and many other groups to lead and deliver extraordinary e-commerce experience from merchandising to checkout on all platforms (Web, MOW and Native iOS) in an exciting fast-paced environment.
We are looking for someone who has a proven track record in crafting and developing high quality enterprise software solutions. This position requires a hands on person, who is passionate about understanding the details of a problem, can think about different solutions and can advise a team by example when the time to implement comes.
You will work with a meaningful set of technologies and concepts such as, Java, Scala, Microservices, AWS, Event Driven Architectures, Oracle, No-SQL DB etc. This is an exciting role, demanding a strong technology background and collaboration skills to be able to support software that meets high standards from a functional standpoint and demands operational perfection in both production and non production environments.
We're looking for a self-starting, upbeat individual with excellent written and communication skills, hardworking person who is a great teammate, but not afraid to question assumptions and take initiative. If you feel this is you, we'd love to hear from you.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 6+ years of overall experience in Software performance engineering/ Load Test Engineer in a professional setting
- Knowledge of computer science, with an in-depth understanding of data structures, algorithms, and Service Oriented Architectures
- Expert in understanding various performance testing tool like Jmeter, K8, Gatling.
- Experience in programming in Java, Scala or any other object oriented programming language with deep understanding of object oriented concepts
- Experience in No-SQL, RDS DB like Cassandra, Mongo DB, Couchbase, Oracle
- Excellent knowledge of web technologies such as HTTP, cookies, AJAX, etc.
- Good understanding on performance engineering concepts like perf modeling, application benchmarking, requirement analysis and testing.
- Knowledge on multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, multi-threaded and reliable web services
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Experience scaling distributed systems to handle millions of concurrent requests is desirable
- Experience with EKS, Containerization, Serverless Technologies, SNS/SQS, ElastiCache, S3 and Kubernetes is a plus.
- Experience working with a large scale consumer facing websites is a plus