Lead Performance Engineer

Job Title: Lead Performance Engineer

City: O Fallon

State/Province: Missouri

Posting Start Date: 9/18/26

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.

Responsible for identifying and resolving end-to-end performance bottlenecks across distributed systems, Spring Boot services, middleware components, and hybrid cloud environments (private cloud + AWS). This role goes far beyond traditional testing by deeply analyzing container orchestration, networking paths, and system interactions under load. This position maps full system workflows, sets realistic latency budgets, and ensures each component meets its SLOs. Ideal candidates have extensive experience with high-scale, multi-region, and high-transaction platforms (e.g., financial systems, payment processing, or large enterprise SaaS) running in a Cloud environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Define service-level objectives (SLOs), performance budgets, and latency/throughput targets across services.

• Architect and champion comprehensive distributed tracing strategies (Dynatrace, AWS X-Ray, etc.).

• Analyse application, platform, and cloud behaviour using deep-dive techniques such as heap dumps, thread dumps, flame graphs, GC logs, network traces, and storage I/O profiling.

• Review service and system architectures for performance risks (e.g., synchronous hops, excessive dependencies, misconfigured connection pools, poor cache placement).

• Conduct and lead root-cause analysis for performance incidents in production and pre-production environments.

• Develop capacity models and performance baselines for services running across cloud environments.

Areas of Expertise

• Application Layer: Spring Boot internals, JVM tuning, thread/heap management, concurrency debugging, GC optimization

• Container Runtime: PCF, Docker, container resource limits, CPU throttling, memory pressure

• Orchestrators: PCF, Kubernetes, ECS (autoscaling, pod health, scheduling issues)

• Networking: Service-to-service hops, TLS overhead, DNS, routing, load balancer configs (F5, Nginx, ALB/NLB), service mesh performance

• Storage: Latency, IOPS constraints, distributed file system behaviour

• Caching & Middleware: Redis, Hazelcast, NATS, Kafka, RabbitMQ configuration and throughput tuning

• Databases: Connection pool tuning, slow queries, indexing, replication lag

• Cloud Layer: AWS compute/storage/network performance, regional latency, cross-cloud traffic patterns

Mandatory Skills: Spring Boot .
Experience: 8-10 Years .
The expected compensation for this role ranges from $80,000 to $158,000 .
Final compensation will depend on various factors, including your geographical location, minimum wage obligations, skills, and relevant experience. Based on the position, the role is also eligible for Wipro's standard benefits including a full range of medical and dental benefits options, disability insurance, paid time off (inclusive of sick leave), other paid and unpaid leave options.
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