Job Description:
The GraphQL Performance Engineering team at Marriott is dedicated to improving the digital experience for millions of guests worldwide while also enhancing the engineering experience for teams across Marriott. We achieve this by challenging the status quo and driving innovative approaches to deliver fast, reliable, and scalable digital solutions. We are seeking a highly engaged and motivated Performance Engineer who is passionate about optimizing system performance, continuously improving their skills, and learning emerging technologies. The ideal candidate will have a strong hands-on background in performance engineering, test automation, and system optimization, along with exceptional communication and collaboration skills. In this role, you will: Serve as a technical performance expert within the GraphQL team, ensuring APIs are scalable, reliable, and efficient under high load. Conduct performance testing, profiling, benchmarking, and tuning of GraphQL services and their integrations with multiple channels, third party’s integrations and domain API teams. Collaborate closely with product, architecture, and engineering teams to design and implement solutions that improve end-to-end performance. Analyze production bottlenecks, scalability issues, and latency concerns, and provide actionable recommendations. Develop performance frameworks, monitoring strategies, and performance dashboards to proactively detect and prevent issues. Act as a bridge across teams, providing technical expertise, guidance, and solutions to performance-related challenges.
