Performance Engineer
- Full-time
- Career Site Location: Israel, Petach Tikva
Company Description
About CyberArk
CyberArk, a Palo Alto Networks company, is the global leader in identity security, trusted by organizations around the world to secure human and machine identities in the modern enterprise. CyberArk’s AI-powered Identity Security Platform applies intelligent privilege controls to every identity with continuous threat prevention, detection and response across the identity lifecycle. With Identity Security, organizations can reduce operational and security risks by enabling zero trust and least privilege with complete visibility, empowering all users and identities, including workforce, IT, developers and machines, to securely access any resource, located anywhere, from everywhere. Learn more at cyberark.com.
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Job Description
We are looking for a Performance Engineer with hands-on experience, great problem-solving skills, and self-learning ability. You should be highly motivated and have excellent interpersonal skills. A performance engineer who will identify performance and stability issues, preferably in the early stages of design, find the root cause, and suggest solutions or better design
Responsibilities:
Act as the software Performance focal point in the R&D team, lead and centralize all the relevant activities, consulting, and guidance for performance and functionality for the team
Provide actionable tasks to R&D by analysing performance results and tracking benchmarks.
Design, execute, and analyse scalability, stability, and load tests.
Review new features and assess the Performance Risk
Investigate Production/customer issues/tickets when needed
Own and maintain the performance lab environment
Provide production resource settings and optimization
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Qualifications
Database performance. Tuning databases, finding performance issues and configuration issues
Performance Engineering hands-on experience, including designing, executing, and analysing enterprise software.
Knowledge of Linux
Knowledge of networking
Knowledge of application servers
Knowledge of databases performance
Advantages:
Experience in software development
Experience with Web Protocol; additional protocols are an advantage.
Experience with developing scripts in Python, Shell, and Bash is an advantage
Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP
Understanding concepts of multi-threading, cache, memory management.
Ability to identify and resolve system bottlenecks using profiling tools
Experience with CI/CD process and tools
Education / Experience:
B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
Team player with excellent interpersonal skills
Self-learning ability