CyberArk

Performance Engineer

CyberArk  •  Central District, IL (Hybrid)  •  3 days ago
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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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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

CyberArk

About CyberArk

CyberArk is the global leader in Identity Security. Centered on privileged access management, CyberArk provides the most comprehensive security offering for any identity – human or machine – across business applications, distributed workforces, hybrid cloud workloads, and the DevOps lifecycle. The world’s leading organizations trust CyberArk to help secure their most critical assets.

For over 25 years, CyberArk has led the market in securing enterprises against cyber attacks that take cover behind insider privileges and attack critical enterprise assets. Today, only CyberArk delivers a new category of targeted security solutions that help leaders stop reacting to cyber threats and get ahead of them, preventing attack escalation before irreparable business harm is done. At a time when auditors and regulators recognize that privileged accounts are the fast track for cyber attacks and demand stronger protection, CyberArk’s security solutions master high-stakes compliance and audit requirements while arming businesses to protect what matters most.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Newton, MA
Year Founded
1999
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