What You’ll Do:
- Lead the evolution of the Coupa Performance Engineering Team, to serve the need of our many functional teams and acquired applications
- Manage an agile team of 6+ engineers
- Hire, retain and motivate top talent on the team
- Define long-term roadmap and drive release planning and execution
- Be involved in technical architecture and design decisions
- Work closely with peers to ensure successful outcomes and improve business processes
- Collaborate with Product Management, Development Engineering, and Cloud Infrastructure teams to find the optimal way to scale applications and the infrastructure.
- Provide technical assistance to improve system performance, capacity, reliability, and scalability.
- Proactive end-to-end cluster scalability, performance, and exceptions analysis.
- Continually look for opportunities to improve our platform, process, and business.
- Be an evangelist for performance best practices and tools
What will you bring to Coupa:
- At least 14+ years of experience in Performance Engineering.
- Domain expert on public cloud, distributed system, micro services architecture and capacity planning
- Experienced in Performance engineering design, implementing, and automating benchmarks
- Proven experience in performance, scalability analysis and optimizations
- Experienced in distributed tracing tools/APM such as New Relic, Grafana, Kibana to collect traces, metrics, and logs and create meaningful dashboards and alerts.
- Experience in gatling, AWS, AZURE, ruby/java, MySQL, Lunix, microservices etc.
- Ability to support and mentor both individuals and teams.
- Good functional understanding of enterprise SaaS products
- Ability to support and mentor individual and team
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
- Be awesome, tell us what makes you special!
- Prior experience managing Ruby on Rails development projects Enterprise platform architecture
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What We Do
Coupa is a global technology company that helps businesses run smarter by connecting all the ways they spend money — from procurement and expenses to payments and supply chain decisions — in one intelligent platform. In simple terms, Coupa gives organizations the visibility and control they need to make better financial choices, reduce waste, and drive real impact. It’s where technology meets purpose: helping companies manage their resources more responsibly while creating a positive ripple across their people, partners, and the planet.
Why Work With Us
At Coupa, we prioritize an inclusive and empathetic workplace where every voice is valued. Our teams are proactive and accountable, ensuring we collaborate effectively to achieve our goals. The foundation of our culture rests on our people; we believe in fostering an environment that encourages innovation and curiosity.
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