Principal Performance Engineer

Nisum is a leading global digital commerce firm headquartered in California, with services spanning digital strategy and transformation, insights and analytics, blockchain, business agility, and custom software development. Founded in 2000 with the customer-centric motto Building Success Together, Nisum has grown to over 1,800 professionals across the United States, Chile, Colombia, India, Pakistan, and Canada. A preferred advisor to leading Fortune 500 brands, Nisum enables clients to achieve business growth by building the advanced technology needed to reach customers through immersive digital and physical experiences.

• 15+ years of performance testing experience & would have worked at Principal level for at least 4+ years.
• Principal is hands-on leader who drives design, development and delivery to production, helping team members technically while working in key stakeholders to align for project goals regularly through discussions and demos.
• 5+ years of experience writing and maintaining performance tests in tools such as Apache JMeter
• Experience with APM (Application Performance Monitoring) and visibility tools such as AppDynamics, Open Search and Grafana
• Experience working with containerized Java and NodeJS applications running in Kubernetes as well as traditional Virtual Machines with Apache Tomcat as the Java application container
• Working knowledge of web technologies including HTML, HTTP, REST, JSON, and JavaScript
• Proficiency with SQL and a thorough understanding of relational database systems such as Oracle
• Knowledge of no-SQL and time series databases such as Oracle, Apache Cassandra and InfluxDB are a plus
• Knowledge of core web vitals as well as measurement tools such as SiteSpeed.io, Lighthouse, Chrome Performance Tools as well as WebPageTest are a plus
• An understanding of source code management tools such as Git and other core programming practices
• Enthusiasm for constant improvement as a Principal Software Engineer
• Ability to review and understand proposed designs and offer thoughtful feedback in a collegial fashion
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing.