Lead Performance Engineer
Wells Fargo17 hours ago
Charlotte, NC, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and execute performance, load, stress, and capacity test strategies for distributed systems.
- Build and maintain automated performance test scripts and frameworks using LoadRunner and Postman.
- Analyze application performance in microservices architectures running on Kubernetes and OpenShift.
- Monitor system health with Splunk, SPLOC, Grafana, and AppDynamics to identify trends, constraints, and anomalies.
- Perform root-cause analysis across application, infrastructure, network, JVM, and database layers.
- Evaluate JVM garbage collection, CPU, memory, heap, and thread behavior to improve application efficiency.
- Design and implement service virtualization solutions, including stubs and mock services.
- Test event-driven architectures using Kafka, Redis, and other messaging and caching technologies.
- Establish performance benchmarks, SLAs, response-time thresholds, concurrency limits, and capacity-planning targets.
- Partner with engineering, architecture, platform, and DevOps teams to integrate performance validation into CI/CD pipelines.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of Software Engineering experience or equivalent experience demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience with performance testing tools.
- At least 5 years of experience testing RESTful and SOAP APIs and distributed systems.
- At least 5 years of experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Splunk, SPLOC, Grafana, and AppDynamics.
- At least 5 years of experience in JVM performance tuning, garbage collection, and memory management.
- At least 5 years of demonstrated experience with service virtualization.
- At least 5 years of scripting or programming experience with C, Java, Python, or similar.
- Desired experience includes cloud-based microservices, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Kafka, Redis, API gateways, middleware, network concepts, layered troubleshooting, CI/CD integration, and regulated or financial-services environments.
- Strong analytical, critical-thinking, communication, ownership, and problem-solving skills are expected.
Benefits
- Hybrid work schedule.
- Must work on-site at one of the listed locations.
- Relocation assistance is not available.
- The position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
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About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company is a U.S.-based financial services firm providing consumer and commercial banking, mortgages, credit, and wealth/investment services to individuals, small businesses, and enterprises. It earns revenue from interest income and fees across retail banking, payments, lending, and capital markets. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is publicly traded on the NYSE (WFC) and operates nationally with offices in multiple countries.