Engineering Manager, Performance Engineering

theScoreToronto, ON

30+ days ago

Salary

CA$105,000.00–CA$195,000.00 yearly

Job description

theScore, a wholly-owned subsidiary of PENN Entertainment , empowers millions of sports fans through its digital media and sports betting products. Its media app 'theScore' is one of the most popular in North America, delivering fans highly personalized live scores, news, stats, and betting information from their favorite teams, leagues, and players. theScore's sports betting app 'theScore Bet Sportsbook & Casino' delivers an immersive and holistic mobile sports betting and iCasino experience. theScore Bet is currently live in the Company's home province of Ontario. theScore also creates and distributes innovative digital content through its web, social and esports platforms.

About the Role & Team

As part of the theScore team, you will be working with a team of smart, friendly, and dedicated Engineers, Product Managers and Designers determined to deliver some of the best apps the market has to offer. We want you to be challenged and to get the full experience of what it's like to work at theScore! We are looking for a Head of Performance Engineering to join our site reliability team, to work cross-functionally across engineering, and be the front line for performance improvements and reduction of perf related issues across services and applications. This role will be immersed in SDLC requirements and the creation / adoption of performance related frameworks and standards.

About the work

As part of the SRE department - targeting quality excellence, and higher customer satisfaction within all verticals including core services, platform, and application services
Using a deep understanding of architecture stacks and performance patterns - in addition to performance tools and performance testing - to understand business requirements and help architect / fine-tune systems for better performance early in the development life cycle.
Drive holistic performance strategy, performance testing, analysis, tuning, and performance architecture for any verticals and capabilities.
Hiring your team to deliver your objectives and build your division.
Once hired - Mentor a team of performance engineers on test data and performance environment needs and develop schedules for ongoing performance testing activities.
Provide technical recommendations for a holistic performance strategy covering environment, techniques, key SLA metrics; platform hardware analysis; scalability architecture for better performance; and performance profiling / troubleshooting techniques.
Identify bottlenecks and tuning points, partnering close with Development team to characterize and improve application scalability and performance in software architectures
Partner with SRE, product, and development teams to develop real-time performance dashboards and provide daily transparency of production application performance to stakeholders.
Develop and oversee performance strategies and approaches including creating performance metrics and ensuring all applications are performing to the agreed upon SLAs.
Define and implement best practices for end-to-end application performance management solutions including Proof of Concepts and Tools evaluation and selection - specifically in emerging technologies (Web, Mobile, Big-data).

About You

Experienced leader who is passionate about innovative technology - specifically performance engineering tools, performance profiling, web / mobile and database performance real-time monitoring

Love being hands on and eager to demonstrate a clear path of services adoption to your partners with demos, presentations, and prototypes

Motivated to drive Performance Test automation and self-service culture as a part of software delivery practices.

Scale your communication to articulate application performance metrics and issues starting from engineers to program managers to executives.

Ability to define performance test team strategy and roadmap, as well as partner with management to drive out and implement the strategy.

Must have excellent experience installing, configuring, and using performance testing tools, performance monitoring tools, and analytics tools.

Prior experience with Cross browser and Mobile end-user performance / experience monitoring, and performance testing and tuning with Cloud native applications on GCP / GKE / Anthos

Web Application and Web Services performance architecture, scripting, and testing experience and knowledge.

What We Offer

Competitive compensation package.

Comprehensive Benefits package.

Fun, relaxed work environment.

Education and conference reimbursements.

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theScore is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability or age.