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Performance Engineer

Location: Sydney, Australia

Contract Type: Full Time Permanent

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Our DevOps culture is strong: we believe in “release small, release often.” Thanks to our fully automated CI/CD pipelines, we push over 13,000 releases to production every year, delivering value to customers in real time. We use modern technologies across backend, frontend, apps, data and infrastructure, and we’re continuously evolving. We tackle complex engineering challenges such as real-time scalability, database migrations with no downtime, and peak transaction loads, all while maintaining an exceptional and safe customer experience.

Turning skills into thrills

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  • Technical Expertise
  • Strategic Thinking and Innovative
  • Adaptive Problem-Solving & Experimentation
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Agility & Adaptability
  • Curiosity & Continuous Learning

United by our three values

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Striving for excellence and beyond

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Taking ownership and upholding high standards every day

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As one team, we achieve more

Performance Engineer

As we continue to improve our growing platform, we're looking for a motivated Performance Engineer with excellent hands-on skills to join our TechOps team.

Initiative, resourcefulness, and autonomy are essential skills for this role. The Performance Engineer should be able to reliably, lead continuous improvement culture, and have the patience to communicate with a variety of interdisciplinary stakeholders.

Critical attributes for this role also include proactiveness, ability to quickly learn and pick up complex component integrations, manage many competing priorities and think outside the box.

You will know the development life cycle better than the back of your hand including Agile methodologies.

Nice to have:

  • Infrastructure (Couchbase, Elastic, Kafka, Solace, Oracle, PostgreSQL).
  • Platform (K8, Isitio, AWS, OpenStack).
  • Source control (any git based tool).
  • Deployment tools (Jenkins).
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently, and learn quickly, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Gaming industry experience is desirable (Not mandatory).
  • Experience in test automation design with Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery tools like TeamCity, Bitbucket.

Key accountabilities / Measures:

  • Demonstrated experience with various performance testing tools such as JMeter (essential , Neoload , Load-runner, Gatling etc.
  • Hands-on experience with analysing performance metrics associated with throughput, latency, memory, CPU, disk & network and the ability to debug bottlenecks associated with any of them
  • Skilled in both the art and science of benchmark creation and measurement and modelling of system behaviour under load
  • Experienced designing Load, stress, Endurance, spike workload
  • Experience with Application performance monitoring tools such as Elastic APM , Instana , Newrelic , App Dynamics, Datadog (any 1 preferred)
  • Should be able to work/co-ordinate individually with engineering teams
  • Be a champion of change and innovation to improve all aspects of testing.
  • Support continuous integration through automation.
  • Ability to communicate clearly and concisely with business and technical stakeholders.
  • Proven command of various software testing methods, levels, types, and processes and where they fit in the overall system and produce development lifecycles.

If you have the above skills and experience and are looking for an exciting and rewarding career apply today. We look forward to hearing from you.

Only applicants currently in Australia with unrestricted working rights will be considered.

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