Software Engineer – Performance Engineering

Staples India; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Staples India is seeking a performance engineer to develop, test, and maintain software ensuring performance goals align with business needs.

You will design and execute performance tests using JMeter, Locust, or LoadRunner, analyze bottlenecks with diagnostics, and collaborate with developers and SREs to optimize distributed systems across microservices.

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Certifications in JMeter, Azure, GCP, AI/ML, Splunk, New Relic are a plus.
• 2–5 years of hands-on experience with performance testing and observability tools.
• Proven expertise in diagnosing and tuning distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and maintain software components aligned with requirements.
• Design and execute performance testing strategies using JMeter, Locust, or LoadRunner.
• Analyze performance bottlenecks and provide tuning recommendations.
• Collaborate with developers and SREs to optimize performance across services.

Skills

Performance testing

System diagnostics

Automation scripting

Cross-functional collaboration

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

JMeter

Locust

LoadRunner

New Relic

Splunk

Wireshark

Lighthouse

Catchpoint

Chrome DevTools

WebPageTest

Fiddler

Job description

Play a key role in developing, testing, and maintaining software components and applications aligned with business and technical requirements. Design and execute performance testing strategies using tools such as JMeter, Locust, or LoadRunner. Analyze system performance and identify bottlenecks through diagnostics including heap/thread dumps, TCP dumps, and Wireshark. Provide tuning recommendations and collaborate with developers and infrastructure teams to optimize performance.

Monitor and optimize server-side and browser-side performance using tools like Lighthouse, Catchpoint, Chrome DevTools, and WebPageTest. Collaborate cross-functionally with developers, SREs, and QA to embed performance best practices throughout the SDLC. Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality, performance, and adherence to architectural standards. Assist in troubleshooting and resolving software defects, including performance-related issues.

Continuously learn and apply best practices in software development, performance engineering, quality, and security. Contribute to the design of new features and improvements to existing applications with a performance-first mindset.

Requirements

Required Education: Requires a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a directly related field of study.

Good to have Certifications: JMeter, Azure, GCP, AI/ML, Splunk, New Relic

Minimum 2-5 years with the following technologies (experience may be gained concurrently):

• Performance & Observability: JMeter, Locust, LoadRunner, New Relic, Splunk, Wireshark, heap/thread dumps, TCP dumps, Lighthouse, Catchpoint
• Languages & Frameworks: Java, JavaScript, Shell, Groovy, PERL
• Infrastructure & Tools: Azure, AKS
• Diagnostics: Fiddler, Chrome DevTools, WebPageTest
• Proven expertise in performance testing, diagnostics, tuning of distributed systems.
• Strong scripting/automation (Shell, Python, PERL), infrastructure-as-code.
• Deep understanding of microservices, cloud-native, container orchestration.
• Skilled in APM tools (New Relic, Dynatrace), log analysis (Splunk), browser-side optimization.
• Excellent communication/leadership, cross-functional collaboration.