Lead Software Engineer - Performance

Qualys

📍 Pune, Maharashtra, India

Full time Computer Occupations Posted March 02, 2026

Job Description

Description

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  • We are seeking a talented Lead Software Engineer – Performanceto deliver roadmap features of Enterprise TruRiskPlatform which would help customers to Measure, Communicate and Eliminate Cyber Risks. 

  • You will lead the performance engineering efforts across Spark, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and Middleware APIs, ensuring that our real-time data pipelines and services meet enterprise-grade SLAs.

  • As part of our high-performing engineering team, you will design and execute performance testing strategies, identify system bottlenecks, and work with development teams to implement performance improvements that support billions of cyber security events processing a day across our data platform.

  • Responsibilities:

  • Own the performance strategy across distributed systems which includes Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Big Data Components and APIs for each release.

  • Define, develo...