Performance Engineer

at  theScore

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.
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!
About the Role & Team
As part of the theScore team, you will work closely with smart, friendly, dedicated individuals across various departments and teams, such as Product Management, Technical Product Management, Engineering, Release Management, IT, Marketing and Customer Support 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 Performance Engineer to join our Performance Engineering team under the SRE department, to work cross-functionally, and be the front line for performance improvements and reduction of performance-related issues across services and applications. This role will be immersed in SDLC requirements and the creation and adoption of performance-related frameworks and standards.
About the Work
As a Performance Engineer in our SRE department, you will play a crucial role in driving quality excellence and enhancing customer satisfaction. Your responsibilities will be divided into two primary focus areas:

SOFT SKILLS:

Known for being kind, an effective team player, and eager to share knowledge.
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with a keen attention to detail.
Strong communication skills and the ability to lead discussions effectively.
Passionate about stress testing systems to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, enjoying the challenge of pushing systems to their limits and uncovering the reasons behind their failures.
Think critically about performance, scalability, and the necessity of automation to boost efficiency.

CORE TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Experience in working with containerization and orchestration technologies, with a preference for Docker & Kubernetes.
Experience with cloud platforms, particularly GCP and/or AWS.
Proficient with one of the following programming languages is required: Python, Go, JavaScript, or Java.
Proficient with one of the performance testing tools that focus on developer experience, such as Grafana k6, Gatling, Locust, and other equivalent tools.
Experience in utilizing CI/CD pipelines to design and implement automated performance tests.
Experience in observability using APM tools, with a preference for Dynatrace or Datadog; however, experience with other APMs such as New Relic, AppDynamic and Splunk is also highly valued.
Prior experience with cross-browser and mobile end-user performance and client-side monitoring is highly desirable.
A computer science degree or equivalent education experience.
Nice to have: Terraform, Kafka, Prometheus, Chaos testing, Database performance optimization.
What We Offer
Competitive compensation package.
Comprehensive Benefits package.
Fun, relaxed work environment.
Education and conference reimbursements.

Please refer the Job description for details