Sabre is a technology company that powers the global travel industry. By leveraging next-generation technology, we create global technology solutions that take on the biggest opportunities and solve the most complex challenges in travel. 

Positioned at the center of the travel, we shape the future by offering innovative advancements that pave the way for a more connected and seamless ecosystem as we power mobile apps, online travel sites, airline and hotel reservation networks, travel agent terminals, and scores of other solutions.

Simply put, we connect people with moments that matter.

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.
  
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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
  

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.