Performance Engineer

Company Description

About CyberArk

CyberArk, a Palo Alto Networks company, is the global leader in identity security, trusted by organizations around the world to secure human and machine identities in the modern enterprise. CyberArk’s AI-powered Identity Security Platform applies intelligent privilege controls to every identity with continuous threat prevention, detection and response across the identity lifecycle. With Identity Security, organizations can reduce operational and security risks by enabling zero trust and least privilege with complete visibility, empowering all users and identities, including workforce, IT, developers and machines, to securely access any resource, located anywhere, from everywhere. Learn more at cyberark.com.

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Job Description

We are looking for a Performance Engineer with hands-on experience, great problem-solving skills, and self-learning ability. You should be highly motivated and have excellent interpersonal skills. A performance engineer who will identify performance and stability issues, preferably in the early stages of design, find the root cause, and suggest solutions or better design

Responsibilities:

• Act as the software Performance focal point in the R&D team, lead and centralize all the relevant activities, consulting, and guidance for performance and functionality for the team
• Provide actionable tasks to R&D by analysing performance results and tracking benchmarks.
• Design, execute, and analyse scalability, stability, and load tests.
• Review new features and assess the Performance Risk
• Investigate Production/customer issues/tickets when needed
• Own and maintain the performance lab environment
• Provide production resource settings and optimization
  
  

• Database performance. Tuning databases, finding performance issues and configuration issues
• Performance Engineering hands-on experience, including designing, executing, and analysing enterprise software.
• Knowledge of Linux
• Knowledge of networking
• Knowledge of application servers
• Knowledge of databases performance
  
  

• Experience in software development
• Experience with Web Protocol; additional protocols are an advantage.
• Experience with developing scripts in Python, Shell, and Bash is an advantage
• Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP
• Understanding concepts of multi-threading, cache, memory management.
• Ability to identify and resolve system bottlenecks using profiling tools
• Experience with CI/CD process and tools
  
  

• B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• Team player with excellent interpersonal skills
• Self-learning ability