Software Performance Engineer

Job Family: Software Engineering Sabre Corporation is a leading technology provider to the global travel and tourism industry. Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, USA, Sabre operates offices in approximately 60 countries around the world. At Sabre, we make travel happen. Positioned at the center of the business of travel, our platform connects people with experiences that matter in their lives. Today, Sabre is creating a new marketplace for personalized travel. It is our people who develop and deliver powerful solutions that meet the current and future needs or our airline, hotel and travel agency customers. Join our journey! What you will achieve SynXis team has an exciting opportunity for a creative and experienced Software Performance Engineer to join Sabre Hospitality Solutions Center of Excellence for Performance Engineering. You will join a very collaborative team that is passionate about application performance and automation. As an Application Performance Engineer your primary responsibility is to conduct production performance and health analysis, analyze metrics from application and system logs, and understand system behavior to improve the performance and reliability of Sabre applications using in-house tools, the latest open source and cloud technologies. To be successful you should have enthusiasm for troubleshooting, analyzing and resolving complex problems and be eager to learn. The Performance Engineering team’s members come from a variety of backgrounds, from Software Developers, Quality Assurance Test Engineers, Test Automation Engineers, and DevOps/SRE. GENERAL DESCRIPTION: As a Performance Engineer on the globally distributed Performance Engineering team, you will be responsible for performance monitoring and analysis of mission-critical systems in Sabre Hospitality Solutions. You will: Monitor and analyze performance characteristics of the platform, Systems and applications performance, efficiency, scalability, and reliability. Monitor and analyze end-to-end performance, identify bottlenecks and work with the Engineering teams to address issues. Monitor systems, virtual machines, networks, load balancers, databases, and cloud services. Monitor applications per agreed upon Service Level Objectives. Create and curate Performance health dashboards to allow for comparative metrics across applications, metrics to find resource contention and limiting factors. Create actionable tasks to appropriate teams for concerns, errors, exceptions, SLA breaches into development workflow. Work with counterparts in the Performance testing and Developer Productivity organizations to build strong workload models, test scenarios. Work with the SRE teams to determine points of failure in the ecosystem. Manage weekly Performance and health status reports and performance history. Works as part of a team responsible for assessing performance risk, identifies critical use cases and select key performance scenarios. Help predict and assess performance risk ahead of production releases. May take part in researching best practices, evaluating new tools and benchmarking new technologies. The successful candidate will have ‘Must have’ skills: 8 years of experience as a software/application developer (back-end, microservices), Quality Assurance QA or similar role in development. Experience in Software Performance Engineering and performance analysis in applications, networks, databases for large scale systems. Understand application and system behavior under load and stress (user, system, capacity, infrastructure). Ability to understand application and systems performance and identify resource constraints and bottlenecks in high volume and heavily integrated messaging and database systems Knowledge of distributed software systems and complex multi-tiered architectures with various types of integration and messaging between applications. Ability to monitor workflows in complex architectures – heavily integrated, multiple databases, message queueing systems, using distributed and local caching, etc. Strong programming, scripting, testing and debugging skills Experience with SOAP/XML Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture, distributed messaging systems System Monitoring and instrumentation (Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus) and tools like AppDynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic, etc. Performance monitoring of relational databases - Oracle and SQL Server, or NoSQL type databases - Cassandra or MongoDB, etc. Knowledge on load testing tools like Visual Studio Ultimate/Premium Edition, JMeter, Grinder, LoadRunner, CloudTest, SoapUI/LoadUI, etc. Self-driven collaborator with ability to work in diverse teams as a contributing member Eager to learn and highly curious. Excellent verbal and written English skills ‘Nice to have’ skills: Knowledge of memory management and Garbage Collection algorithms for server-side applications in Java/C# Experience in at least one of the following: Jenkins, Docker, ansible, DevOps Experience in Cloud technologies – GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure TCP/IP and computer networks literacy Sabre offers the following exciting benefits: Annual Performance bonus plans Development opportunities in country or globally We offer a competitive private health insurance for employees and eligible children Extra Paid Time Off (5 extra days each year) 3 month paid parental leave (12 weeks for fathers/ 18 weeks for mothers) Daily meal allowance Life Insurance Corporate Social Responsibility opportunities Recognition and acknowledgement programs Fun employee engagement and development events **Upload English CV only We will give careful consideration to your application and review your details against the position criteria. You will receive separate notification as we progress your application. Please note that only candidates who meet the minimum requirements will proceed in the selection process. To learn more about the people and culture at Sabre, follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn. This job posting comprises the law No 19691 and its decree No 73/019, which includes the people registered in the National Register of disabled people who have the skills and aptitude for the position described in the present posting. Stay connected with Sabre Careers #LI-Hybrid#LI-TJ1 Reasonable Accommodation Sabre is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. Applicants applying for a Sabre position with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process may contact Sabre at recruiting@careers.sabre.com. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis. 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