Software Engineer – Performance Engineering

Staples India; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Staples India is seeking a Software Engineer – Performance Engineering to design, implement, and maintain performance testing strategies. The role emphasizes identifying bottlenecks with JMeter, Locust, LoadRunner, and diagnostics tools, then delivering tuning recommendations.

You will collaborate with developers and infrastructure teams to optimize performance across distributed microservices. The position requires a bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering and 2–5 years of hands‑on experience with

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Certifications such as JMeter, Azure, GCP, AI/ML, Splunk, New Relic are a plus.
• Minimum 2–5 years with performance testing, observability tools, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute performance testing strategies using tools like JMeter, Locust or LoadRunner.
• Analyze system performance and identify bottlenecks via diagnostics (heap/thread dumps, TCP dumps, Wireshark).
• Provide tuning recommendations and collaborate with developers and infra teams to optimize performance.
• Contribute to design of new features with a performance‑first mindset.

Skills

Performance testing

Observability

Automation scripting

Microservices

Cloud-native

Container orchestration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

JMeter

Locust

LoadRunner

New Relic

Splunk

Wireshark

Lighthouse

Catchpoint

Python scripting

Shell scripting

Job description

Staples India Business Innovation Hub Private Limited | Permanent

Software Engineer – Performance Engineering

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.

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
  
• 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.
  
• Excellent communication/leadership, cross-functional collaboration.