Apple

Senior SAP Performance Engineer

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4 hours ago
Shanghai, ChinaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end performance engineering for SAP applications across browser/client, APIs, integrations, runtimes, networks, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Design workload models and realistic performance scenarios using concurrency profiles, data volumes, mixed-load patterns, endurance patterns, and think-time distributions.
  • Run load, stress, soak, and capacity tests against SAP BTP services, define pass/fail criteria, and make performance sign-off decisions.
  • Diagnose latency and throughput across DNS, TLS, proxies, gateways, payloads, round trips, and downstream services.
  • Monitor and optimize SAP Advanced Event Mesh and Kafka event-driven and publish-subscribe flows, including throughput, broker sizing, partitioning, consumer lag, replay, and backpressure.
  • Tune compute, autoscaling, storage IOPS and throughput, load balancing, and cross-zone or cross-region network performance on cloud hyperscalers.
  • Build production observability using metrics, traces, logs, dashboards, anomaly detection, trend detection, automated root-cause analysis, and narrative reporting.
  • Own production incident response, root-cause analysis, post-go-live performance, and permanent remediation.
  • Partner with HANA database performance engineers and development and functional teams to isolate and resolve performance issues.
  • Participate in architecture and design reviews and establish performance engineering practices, benchmarks, criteria, and delivery-pipeline integration for the Shanghai team.

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of software or performance engineering experience with ownership of enterprise cloud application performance in production.
  • Experience with SAP BTP, including Cloud Foundry or Kyma, CAP, Integration Suite, and XSUAA or AppRouter, or equivalent enterprise PaaS experience with the ability to ramp quickly on BTP.
  • Demonstrated ability to isolate real latency or throughput problems using telemetry and quantify results before and after remediation.
  • Experience with performance testing tools such as Apache JMeter, LoadRunner Enterprise, k6, or Gatling, including workload modeling and capacity analysis.
  • Practical knowledge of HTTP/2, TLS, connection pooling, timeouts, retries, DNS, and proxy behavior.
  • Experience owning production incidents, including time-critical triage and written root-cause analysis.
  • Professional working proficiency in English and Mandarin Chinese.
  • Preferred experience with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, or Grafana for application performance monitoring and distributed tracing.
  • Preferred experience with SAP BTP in China regions and SAP-managed versus customer-operated infrastructure boundaries.
  • Preferred experience operating enterprise workloads on Alibaba Cloud, including networking, load balancing, and observability tooling.
  • Preferred knowledge of S/4HANA, OData, Fiori, CDS-based application patterns, Docker, and Kubernetes.
  • Preferred experience applying AI and ML tooling to performance testing and analysis workflows.
  • Working knowledge of Agile or Scrum delivery is preferred.

Tech Stack

Alibaba CloudApache JMeterApache KafkaDockerGrafanaKubernetes

Categories

Apple

About Apple

10,000+ employees

Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and services for consumers and professionals worldwide, including iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods, plus platforms like iOS/macOS and services such as the App Store, iCloud, Music, and TV+. Its business combines device sales with services and subscriptions and in-house silicon design. Founded in 1976, Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, California, and trades on NASDAQ as AAPL.

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