Job Description
– Performance Lead Company: Xccelera Ai

Location:
Noida, India

Experience:
6+ years (minimum 2+ years leading development teams) Employment Type: Full time About XcceleraXccelera is an AI-first transformation company that designs, deploys, and orchestrates autonomous AI workflows — enabling enterprises and SMBs to scale operations, accelerate decision-making, and achieve measurable business outcomes. We're powering the future of work by building production-ready AI Agents and enterprise-grade platforms that help teams ship faster and smarter. Role Overview We are looking for a Performance Engineer who goes beyond traditional performance testing and plays a critical role in designing, engineering, monitoring, and optimizing system performance across the application lifecycle. The role requires deep collaboration with Architecture, Development, DevOps, and SRE teams to build scalable, resilient, and high-performing systems. 1. Performance Engineering Strategy & Planning
• Define and drive end-to-end performance engineering strategy for complex, distributed, and cloud-native systems.
• Proactively identify performance risks at architecture and design stages.
• Define and monitor performance SLAs, SLOs, and KPIs such as:
• Throughput
• Latency
• Response time
• Concurrency
• Resource utilization
• Participate in design reviews to recommend scalable and high-availability architectures. 2. Performance Testing & Validation
• Design, develop, and execute advanced performance tests including:
• Load testing
• Stress testing
• Spike testing
• Endurance / Soak testing




• Scalability testing
• Failover and resiliency testing
• Chaos engineering (good to have)
• Develop and maintain custom performance test frameworks and reusable components.
• Shift-left performance testing by embedding it early in the SDLC. 3. Tools & Technologies
• Load & Performance Testing Tools: JMeter, Gatling (preferred)
• Monitoring & APM: Grafana (Prometheus, New Relic, Dynatrace – plus)
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Azure, Docker (Kubernetes – plus)
• Scripting & Programming:
• Python, Shell
• Java / JavaScript for custom load generation and analysis utilities 4. Diagnostics, Tuning & Optimization
• Perform deep-dive analysis to identify bottlenecks across:
• Application layer (Java / ReactJS / Node.js)
• Database layer (SQL tuning, indexing, query optimization)
• Caching layers (Redis, Memcached)
• Network latency and throughput
• Memory, CPU, JVM tuning and Garbage Collection optimization
• Work closely with Developers and SRE teams to:
• Recommend performance improvements
• Validate fixes
• Measure performance gains post-optimization 5. Performance Engineering in CI/CD & Production
• Integrate performance tests into CI/CD pipelines.




• Implement automated performance regression detection.
• Build and maintain real-time dashboards, alerts, and reports for performance metrics.
• Support production performance monitoring and incident analysis. 6. Capacity Planning & Scalability
• Conduct capacity planning and forecasting based on business growth.
• Support auto-scaling strategies and infrastructure right-sizing.
• Validate system behavior under peak and extreme load conditions. 7. Cross-Functional Collaboration & Governance
• Collaborate with:
• Architects for scalable system design
• DevOps / SRE for infrastructure optimization
• Product teams for realistic workload modeling
• Provide performance readiness and sign-off for major releases.
• Mentor team members on performance best practices. Key Skills & Competencies
• Strong understanding of performance engineering principles
• Experience with distributed systems and cloud-native architectures
• Hands-on expertise in performance diagnostics and tuning
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate complex performance findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders Nice to Have
• Experience with Kubernetes, Chaos Engineering, Observability tools
• Exposure to microservices performance challenges
• Experience in high-scale or mission-critical systems If you or any of your friends are interested in this job opening, please share your CV with us on [email protected] along with important details like CCTC, ECTC & NP.

📌 Performance Lead (Noida)
🏢 Xccelera AI
📍 Noida