Senior Database Performance QA Architect

PowerToFly; Walthamstow; On-site; GBP 89,000 - 113,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm is looking for a Senior Database Performance QA Architect to enhance database performance and scalability. Candidates should have over 10 years of performance engineering experience, strong analytical skills, and practical knowledge in SQL and system diagnostics. The position involves improving performance benchmarks while collaborating with engineering and product teams. This role is based in Waltham and offers substantial influence within a multi-year development project.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Performance Engineering, ideally in database products.
• Strong analytical skills and QA mindset for complex problem-solving.
• Experience with writing performance benchmarks and workloads.

Responsibilities

• Lead performance understanding and steer development for scalability goals.
• Own database performance evaluation, identify targets, and define KPIs.
• Investigate system performance with development teams for root cause analysis.
• Collaborate on designing test plans for new features and benchmarks.
• Build automated performance testing tools for CI/CD.

Skills

Performance Engineering

Analytical skills

Database Benchmarking

Linux diagnostics

SQL

Python programming

Shell scripting

Monitoring tools

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Linux

Perf

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK

Job description

Role & Responsibilities

Join NuoDB, a leading innovator of a high-performance, distributed, multi-cloud capable distributed SQL database. As part of Dassault Systemes, our novel database powers the globally renowned 3DEXPERIENCE platform underpinning a suite of product design, process management, and collaborative tools running in the cloud

We are seeking a Senior Database Performance QA Architect to join our team in Waltham, MA. This is a high‑impact, hands‑on individual contributor role where your technical leadership and benchmarking efforts will help unlock the potential of NuoDB and allow Dassault Systemes meet their high growth ambitions.

• Lead the way on improving our understanding of NuoDB performance and use your experience and actionable technical insights to help steer development on a multi‑year project with ambitious performance and scalability goals
• Own end‑to‑end database performance evaluation and work cross‑functionally to identify targets and define KPIs
• Investigate system performance issues and deep dive with NuoDB development and application teams on root cause analysis
• Collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to design and develop test plans and benchmarks for new features
• Build automated performance testing and analysis tools for our CI/CD pipeline
• Evaluate NuoDB in comparison with competitor databases
• Define best practices for NuoDB performance tuning and share them with the vibrant NuoDB user community within 3DS

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Must have 10+ years of experience in Performance Engineering, ideally working on a database and/or a distributed product
• A sharp QA mindset, strong analytical skills, and the ability to break down complex problems into simpler components
• Experience in Database Benchmarking
• Strong experience with Linux and system/resource diagnostic tools such as perf
• Experience in SQL, OO Python programming, and shell scripting (i.e., Bash)
• Experience writing reliable performance benchmarks and workloads
• Experience with monitoring & observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, etc

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