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Coforge · 3 weeks ago

Performance Engineering Architect

positionDallas, TX
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityLead/Staff
date15+ years exp

Coforge is seeking a Performance Engineering Architect responsible for defining, designing, and governing performance, scalability, and resilience strategies for high-transaction platforms. The role focuses on ensuring systems perform predictably under peak loads and involves collaboration across architecture, cloud engineering, and DevOps.

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Hiring Manager
Gautam Prasad
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Responsibilities

Define performance engineering strategy across application, API, data, and infrastructure layers
Establish non-functional requirements (NFRs) for latency, throughput, availability, and scalability
Design performance-first architectures for cloud-native and hybrid environments
Lead capacity planning, traffic modeling, and peak-load forecasting
Architect and govern load, stress, endurance, spike, and chaos testing frameworks
Design reusable performance test harnesses for microservices, event-driven, and streaming systems
Identify system bottlenecks across compute, network, storage, and data layers
Drive shift-left performance testing within CI/CD pipelines
Optimize systems in GCP using autoscaling, caching, and resource right-sizing
Architect performance strategies for Kubernetes, service mesh, and container orchestration
Optimize API gateways, message brokers (Kafka/Pub-Sub), and data platforms
Guide performance tuning for Databases, Data Lakes, and Streaming Platforms
Establish observability standards using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch
Correlate performance metrics with business KPIs and customer experience
Partner with SRE teams on SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
Lead performance triage during major incidents and IROPs
Act as architectural authority for performance decisions across programs
Collaborate with product, operations, and executive stakeholders
Provide performance sign-off for major releases and transformations

Qualification

Performance engineeringCloud platformsContainerization & orchestrationObservabilityPerformance monitoringAPI refinementProgramming/scriptingStakeholder engagementLeadership

Required

15+ years of experience
Code optimizations
Code refinement
API refinement
Design improvement
AppDynamics
Appscan
Dynatrace
Performance monitoring
Prometheus/Grafana
Define performance engineering strategy across application, API, data, and infrastructure layers
Establish non-functional requirements (NFRs) for latency, throughput, availability, and scalability
Design performance-first architectures for cloud-native and hybrid environments
Lead capacity planning, traffic modeling, and peak-load forecasting
Architect and govern load, stress, endurance, spike, and chaos testing frameworks
Design reusable performance test harnesses for microservices, event-driven, and streaming systems
Identify system bottlenecks across compute, network, storage, and data layers
Drive shift-left performance testing within CI/CD pipelines
Optimize systems in GCP using autoscaling, caching, and resource right-sizing
Architect performance strategies for Kubernetes, service mesh, and container orchestration
Optimize API gateways, message brokers (Kafka/Pub-Sub), and data platforms
Guide performance tuning for Databases, Data Lakes, and Streaming Platforms
Observability standards using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch
Correlate performance metrics with business KPIs and customer experience
Partner with SRE teams on SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
Lead performance triage during major incidents and IROPs
Act as architectural authority for performance decisions across programs
Collaborate with product, operations, and executive stakeholders
Provide performance sign-off for major releases and transformations
Performance engineering tools: JMeter, Appscan, Dynatrace, Gatling, k6
Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP
Containerization & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Istio/Linkerd
Observability: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK
Messaging & streaming: Kafka, Pub-Sub, Event Hubs
Data platforms: Relational, NoSQL, Data Lakes, Distributed Caches
Programming/scripting: Java, Python, JavaScript, Shell

Company

Coforge

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Coforge is a IT solutions organization, servicing customers in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
dateFounded in 2004
location
New Delhi, Delhi, IND
people-size10001+ employees
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https://www.coforge.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$489.46M
Key Investors
BPEA EQT
2023-05-02Post Ipo Secondary· $108.46M
2019-04-06Post Ipo Equity· $381M
2004-08-30IPO

Leadership Team

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Sudhir Singh
CEO and Executive Director
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Manish Hermajani
Senior Vice President, Head of Investor Relations
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