Principal Performance Engineer - Urgent Position

We are looking to hire a brilliant Principal Performance Engineer to join our all-star team at Emirates in Dubai.
Growing your career as a Full Time Principal Performance Engineer is a fantastic opportunity to develop competitive skills.
If you are strong in presentation, decision-making and have the right drive for the job, then apply for the position of Principal Performance Engineer at Emirates today!


Job Purpose
Support and drive the development and execution of holistic performance engineering strategies for projects and programs in a fast paced agile environment. Provide subject matter expertise to meet and continuously improve the products Performance and reliability goals. Guide the teams in identifying and fixing performance bottlenecks, and preventing occurrence by providing architectural and design guidance.
Job Outline:
- Design and implement strategies to evaluate and improve the performance and scalability of our products, with a focus on end to end test automation.
- Ensure performance engineering standards and process improvements are being consistently implemented within an agile release train, thereby improving the quality of delivery.
- Research, design and implement strategies and solutions for continuous performance testing, enabling improved quality and faster time to market
- Execute technical assessments of solutions and features, to validate and improve system performance and capacity.
- Collaborate with the Architecture and Product teams for technology exploration and testability of the solutions provided, ensuring all our solutions meet the non-functional requirements.
- Collaborate with the platform teams to establish and implement Monitoring, Observability and Application Performance Management practices, enabling our teams to proactively monitor our systems and reduce Mean Time to Repair.
- Adopt, build, and recommend new tools, technologies, frameworks, or processes in line with the performance engineering roadmap, thereby improving the productivity of our engineers and efficiency of our services.
- Lead problem/incident resolution and support performance engineers in identifying and fixing performance and availability bottlenecks.
- Lead, coach and mentor performance engineers within a release train, providing leadership and continuous feedback. Mentor feature teams and systems teams in adopting and implementing Shift left Testing and validation strategies.
- Deduce and understand the trade-offs to different technical and design decisions which could impact the bottom-line or user experience.
Qualifications & Experience
Information Technology. Other: 8+ Years Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent):
- Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field Experience in Performance engineering for highly available and scalable mission critical applications.
- 5+ years' experience leading performance engineering engagements for complex multi-tiered products.
- Experience in establishing performance best practices, including web performance optimization, performance tuning and continuous performance validation.
Knowledge/skills:
Mandatory Technical Skills:
- Performance Engineering and Testing, practices, tools and frameworks
- Performance Optimization and Performance Tuning
- Traditional and Modern Architectures, Design principles and standards, with a focus on performance, scalability and reliability
- Monitoring and Observability solutions, including APM, logging and distributed tracing solutions
- UI performance analysis and optimization, both browser and mobile apps
- Continuous performance validation and testing
- DevOps practices
- Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and version control solutions
- Infrastructure as code and Configuration Management solutions
- Code profiling, memory profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis
- Cloud technologies, Container and Container Orchestration technologies
- Agile and Waterfall methodologies
Leadership Role: Yes
Salary & Benefits
Join us in a management role and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary. On top of our generous travel benefits, including discounted flights and hotel stays around the world, this managerial role also has an excellent leave and healthcare package. That's on top of transport benefits, life insurance and more. Find out what it's like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website

Benefits of working as a Principal Performance Engineer in Dubai:

● Excellent benefits
● Opportunities to grow
● Competitive salary