Sr Performance Engineer

Why Us?

Motive is a leader in device, entitlement, IoT, and service management market with over hundred top-tier CSP customers worldwide and billions of endpoints under administration, with a core mission to help customers grow revenue faster, while automating their customer experience across all engagement channels. Motive was acquired by Lumine Group in April 2024 and now functions as an independent company with HQ in Canada.

Today we provide solutions and services to many of the largest companies in the world and our systems remain the most trusted, secure, flexible, and performant systems available in the marketplace. Please visit our website to know more about us - https://www.motive.com.

A Day in the Life of a Senior Performance Engineer

As a Senior Performance Engineer, you will be the driving force behind the performance, scalability, and reliability of our solutions. Working within a collaborative R&D team, you will own the performance testing strategy from end to end, conduct dimensioning exercises, and tackle complex scalability challenges across our Java/Spring Boot applications running on Kubernetes-based platforms.

What You'll Do

• Own and drive the overall performance testing strategy: load, stress, soak, spike, endurance, and capacity testing
• Design and execute performance test scenarios using tools like JMeter, Gatling, k6, or Locust
• Provide guidance to other performance engineers
• Define, track, and report on solution performance KPIs (response time percentiles, throughput, error rates, resource utilization)
• Profile and tune Java/Spring Boot applications, diving deep into JVM internals, GC behavior, heap sizing, and thread pool performance
• Analyze and optimize messaging protocol performance (MQTT, STOMP): connection scaling, throughput, QoS impact, and session management
• Conduct capacity planning and dimensioning exercises, translating business growth projections into concrete infrastructure sizing recommendations
• Identify and resolve scalability bottlenecks across the full stack, from application code to container orchestration
• Tune Kubernetes performance (resource requests/limits, HPA/VPA, pod scheduling) across platforms such as k3s, OpenShift, EKS, and AKS
• Diagnose container-level issues including CPU throttling, OOM kills, and I/O contention
• Build and maintain observability dashboards using Prometheus/Grafana
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines to catch regressions early
• Present findings and recommendations to engineering leadership, influencing architecture and infrastructure decisions
• Champion a performance-first mindset across teams

Must-Haves

• 12+ years of experience in performance engineering
• Hands-on with at least one major performance testing tool (JMeter, Gatling, k6, or Locust)
• Strong knowledge of Java/JVM internals and Spring Boot profiling (JFR/JMC, async-profiler, YourKit)
• Solid background in resolving common application bottlenecks (HikariCP, thread models, N+1 queries, connection leaks)
• Comfortable scaling up messaging protocols (MQTT, STOMP)
• Kubernetes performance tuning across at least two of k3s, OpenShift, EKS, AKS
• Capacity planning and dimensioning experience
• Proficient with Prometheus/Grafana
• Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Strong communicator, able to influence architecture decisions at leadership level

Nice-to-Haves

• Kafka/RabbitMQ performance tuning (consumer lag, partition sizing, throughput)
• Hands-on with message broker scalability and tuning (VerneMQ, eJabberd, RabbitMQ, Vert.x, or similar): cluster sizing, topic/subscription fan-out, persistent session overhead, and connection limits
• Database performance tuning (Redis, MaxScale/MySQL, Oracle/GoldenGate): query plans, indexing, connection pooling
• Knowledge of cloud auto-scaling patterns
• Familiarity with IaC tools (Ansible, Terraform, Helm) for reproducible test environments
• Scripting skills (shell) for custom tooling

Location - Remote, India/Portugal

Limitation and Disclaimer:

The aforementioned job description is aimed to provide an overview of the overall type and level of work being performed for this role; it shouldn't be interpreted as a complete list of all obligations, responsibilities, and qualifications needed for the job.

In no way does this job description imply or say that these are the exclusive responsibilities of the employee holding this position. Any additional job-related instructions or tasks that are requested by the manager must be completed by the employee.

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