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Job title: Performance Engineer – (Product & Innovation/ Cloud HCM Engineering)

Location: Devanahalli Campus, Bangalore North

What you’ll build

• Drive performance engineering activities across the lifecycle — including architecture review, performance analysis, testing, bottleneck identification, and tuning of applications.
• Collaborate with module and development teams to design and build high-volume, low-latency cloud-based HCM applications.
• Analyze production performance issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement tuning or design improvements to ensure system reliability and scalability.
• Optimize application performance through code improvements, configuration tuning, and workload analysis.
• Work as an independent contributor responsible for planning, execution, and delivery of performance engineering tasks within the team.

What you bring

• BE/B.Tech/M.Tech (full-time) in Computer Science or related field with strong computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design).
• 5–7 years of experience in performance engineering, performance testing, and troubleshooting of large-scale enterprise applications.
• Hands-on experience with performance testing and profiling tools such as LoadRunner, Dynatrace, jProfiler, or similar tools.
• Strong expertise in performance diagnostics, bottleneck identification, root cause analysis, and tuning of Java-based applications in production environments.
• Hands-on Java backend development experience using technologies such as Spring, Hibernate, and Tomcat/JEE.
• Strong working knowledge of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, and system-level monitoring tools (e.g., nmon, vmstat, iostat, JMX).
• Experience with modern infrastructure and platforms, including web/application servers (Apache, NGINX), containers (Docker, Kubernetes), caching (Redis), and CI/CD tools (Git, Jenkins, TeamCity).
• Strong understanding of database performance tuning, scalable system design, and cloud environments (AWS/Azure); experience with large-scale SaaS applications is a plus.

Where you belong

At SAP SuccessFactors we have started a Human Revolution. Using the latest technologies, we are unlocking human potential and transforming our customer’s workforce in ways they never imagined.  We are digitally transforming their businesses into the next generation of intelligent enterprises.  Because people are at the heart of every business transformation and people are the heart of our business.  The SAP SuccessFactors product suite spans core human resources and payroll, analytics-based hiring and customized onboarding, continuous performance management, intelligent succession, and more.  We operate the largest HCM Cloud in the world, supporting over 120 million users with over a billion transactions for customers across 26 industries in over 90 countries.  Our co-located agile teams have end-to-end ownership of product, design, development, release, user assistance, and cloud operations capabilities.  We are looking for the best talent to join our team and deliver continuous innovations in the cloud while bringing purpose to their lives and more meaning to their work.  Join us today and become a part of the Human Revolution.

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Bring out your best
SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.  

We win with inclusion
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Requisition ID: 446124  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations:  #LI-Hybrid

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