As a Performance Architect, you will apply your expertise to influence our engineering teams in identifying & pursuing performance optimizations of existing products and infrastructure. This role is an opportunity for someone who is passionate about performance engineering and can lead the efforts to directly impact the experience of a massive user base. You will also work closely with DevOps, Engineering and CloudOps Operations teams to drive the end to end performance monitoring and visibility across all technology components.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement solutions to evaluate and improve performance and scalability of our multiplayer games, mobile apps and backend systems and Infrastructure
- Root cause analysis of performance and scalability issues and recommend solutions to alleviate these issues
- Optimize sizing of deployed component instances for cost optimization
- Drive & execute strategic technology initiatives, working with Product Managers, Architects, Engineers, SMEs.
- Research, case studies, and prototypes on leading-edge technologies and how they can be leveraged in addressing product scalability bottlenecks
- Design Operations focused solutions for Engineering, considering performance, tuning, and scalability
- Provide technical recommendations for system performance measurement and analysis, and profiling/troubleshooting techniques
- Diagnoses, tracks, and manages performance issues to resolution
Requirements
- At least 10 years of experience in Performance Engineering and troubleshooting of production systems
- Strong analytical and programming skills in either one of the programming languages (Java or Python or Node.js or Golang etc.)
- At least 5+ years of development experience in any programming language ( Java or Python or Node.js or Golang etc.)
- Domain expert on public cloud, distributed system, microservices architecture and capacity planning
- Experienced in Performance engineering design, implementing, and automating benchmarks
- Proven experience in performance, scalability analysis and optimizations
- Proven expertise in solving OS-level performance issues
- Excellent Kubernetes diagnostic experience
- Understanding of cloud-scale and micro/micro-services architecture
- Demonstrated knowledge of systems software and understand the impact of locking, caching and I/O on software performance
- Proven track record in bringing clarity to ambiguous situations. Ability to facilitate and arbitrate technical discussions, and to make challenging calls or recommendations; Work well in a distributed team environment
- Experience in monitoring and measurements using tools like catchpoint, InfluxDB, Prometheus, ELK/Kibana and New Relic
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
About Junglee Games:
Junglee Games is a leader in the skill-gaming space, with over 25 million users. Founded in San Francisco in 2012, and funded by top-tier Silicon Valley VCs, Junglee Games is the fastest-growing skill-gaming company in the world. Some of our notable games are Junglee Rummy, Eatme.io, Junglee Teen Patti, and Howzat.
With teams in 7 countries, Junglee is 250 people strong and has close to doubled in revenues and headcount every year. With YOY growth of 80-100% and high profitability, Junglee will see close to $600 million in gross transaction volumes in FY19-20 and scale to 50 million users.
Our team has worked on international AAA titles like Transformers, Real Steel, Mech Conquest, and Dueling Blades. Our designers have worked on some of Hollywood’s biggest hits, including the movie Avatar.
Junglee is not just a gaming business - it is a blend of data science, innovation, cutting-edge technology and, most importantly, a values-driven culture that is creating the next set of conscious leaders.
Our mission is to build entertainment for millions of people around the world and connect people through high-quality games with customer delight.
