Principal Engineer – Performance testing

🇮🇳 Noida, Uttar Pradesh 🕑 Full-Time 💰 TBD 💻 Software Engineering 🗓️ September 22nd, 2026

Edtech.com's Summary

Magic EdTech is hiring a Principal Engineer – Performance testing to lead performance tuning, diagnostics, and optimization initiatives that directly shape product development and end-user experience. The role combines hands-on performance engineering with team leadership, guiding project planning and estimating while driving diagnostics with tools like AppDynamics and Dynatrace.

Highlights

Lead performance tuning, diagnostic, and monitoring work with 7+ years of hands-on experience.
Bring 3+ years of hands-on design/development experience in languages such as Java or .NET.
Lead a team with 5+ years of experience in project planning, estimating, and project management.
Apply 7+ years of experience with performance diagnostics tools such as AppDynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic, and CA APM.
Deliver software built for high concurrency, scalability, and availability.
Use Application Performance Management tools including AppDynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic, and HP Diagnostics.
Collect, analyze, troubleshoot, and tune performance data hands-on.
Apply exposure to cloud, SaaS, and virtualization performance concerns, including application threading and concurrency.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent, with a minimum of 12 years of work experience accepted in lieu.
Bring strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills to help steer organizational vision and strategy.

Principal Engineer – Performance testing Full Description

Location – Noida or Gurugram

Experience – 7-9 years

Job Description

Principal Engineer – Performance testing : 7-9 yrs. exp

Minimum of 7 years' hands-on experience with performance tuning, diagnostic or monitoring
Minimum of 3 years' hands-on design/development experience (e.g., Java, .NET, etc.)
Minimum of 5 years of Team Lead experience leading a team with experience in Project Planning, Estimating or Project Management.
Minimum of 7 years hands-on experience performance diagnostics tools (e.g., AppDynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic, CA APM (previously Wily Introscope), etc.)
Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience.
Driving Performance optimization initiatives and have a direct impact on product development and end-user experience

Required Skills

Experience delivering software designed for high concurrency, scalability, or availability
Experience using Application Performance Management (APM) tools (e.g., AppDynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic, CA Introscope APM, HP Diagnostics)
Hands-on experience collecting performance data, analyzing, troubleshooting, and tuning
Exposure to Cloud, SaaS, and virtualization concepts and performance concerns
Exposure to application threading and concurrency concerns

Preferred Skills

Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment
Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
Ability to steer organizational vision and strategy