# Principal Performance Engineer

Job Description : Key Responsibilities : - Assist senior engineers in developing load models and designing comprehensive load, stress, capacity, and endurance tests. - Design and execute performance tests spanning micro-frontends, application services, and core enterprise services. - Develop high-quality, maintainable code in accordance with engineering and coding standards. - Build automation that enables engineering teams to assess the performance impact of recent code changes. - Develop automated performance and capacity testing reports that are easy to understand for Software Engineers, SREs, and senior leadership. - Analyze performance results, identify bottlenecks, and provide actionable recommendations. - Work with cross-functional teams to drive performance improvements through to production. - Serve as a technical leader within a Scrum team, participating in planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and technical discussions. - Mentor team members and provide technical guidance on performance engineering practices. - Review proposed technical designs and provide thoughtful feedback on scalability, performance, and reliability. - Collaborate with key stakeholders thr

- **Id**: 1252174
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nisum-principal-performance-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Hyderabad, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-15T11:58:17Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-09-15T11:58:17Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 60
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3875
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams

## Company

- **Id**: 1850626
- **Name**: Nisum
- **Domain**: nisum.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nisum>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 21000
- **Max usd**: 52000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 74

## Technologies

- **Apache HTTP Server** — Optional: no
- **Apache Tomcat** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **JMeter** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Scrum** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **AppDynamics** — Optional: yes
- **Cassandra** — Optional: yes
- **InfluxDB** — Optional: yes
- **Java** — Optional: yes
- **Time Series** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 60

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T18:04:06Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 10
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 0.4
- **P active**: 0.693
- **P room**: 0.35
- **Age days**: 59
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: seen:59, urgency, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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