Performance Engineer

Performance Engineer
Remote
Salary range is: $160,000 - $180,000
About Centric Software:
Centric Software stands at the forefront of innovation, delivering cutting-edge PLM solutions tailored specifically for the retail, fashion, footwear, luxury, and consumer goods industries. Our enterprise software applications are designed to meet the unique challenges of the fast-moving consumer goods market, empowering businesses to manage, optimize, and execute their critical processes with ease.
From concept to production, our software solutions streamline the journey of bringing products to life. We support our customers in effectively managing materials, sourcing, quality, and pricing, ensuring every step leads to a successful final catalog. With Centric Software, businesses can navigate the complexities of product development with confidence and agility. www.centricsoftware.com
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled Performance Engineer with strong expertise in database troubleshooting to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for optimizing the performance, scalability, and reliability of both our applications and underlying database systems. You will identify and resolve database-related performance issues, working closely with developers, DBAs, and infrastructure teams to ensure optimal system performance under varying load conditions.
The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in performance testing, deep knowledge of database internals (e.g., SQL tuning, indexing, query optimization), and the ability to diagnose complex database issues. Your role will be essential in enhancing overall system efficiency and ensuring the best possible performance for our database-driven applications.
Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze and optimize the performance of both application code and database systems to improve efficiency and scalability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database performance issues, including slow queries, resource contention, deadlocks, and indexing problems.
•  Develop and implement performance test plans for database-driven applications, including load, stress, and endurance testing.
•  Use profiling and monitoring tools to identify and resolve database bottlenecks, resource utilization issues, and latency.
• Conduct root cause analysis for performance degradation and implement corrective actions.
•  Work with development teams to identify code optimizations and database changes that improve system performance.
•  Create detailed performance reports and provide actionable insights to improve application and database performance.
• Stay up to date with emerging trends in database technologies, performance testing tools, and best practices.
• Write monitoring and data extraction tools in Java, Python, or Unix Shell.
• Working knowledge of container architecture and technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Information Technology
• Expertise in performance engineering fundamentals like workload models, load generation, queueing models, scalability, and TPS.
• Expert level of JMeter.
• Proven experience as a Performance Engineer or in a similar role with a focus on database performance.
• Strong expertise in database troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Familiarity with database management systems (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB).
• Experience with performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner
• Deep understanding of database internals, including indexing, caching, query execution plans, and storage engines.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Java, Shell) for automation of performance tests and diagnostics.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex performance issues.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with Jenkins, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
• Experience with Datadog and Splunk (a plus)

Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.