Data Platform Telemetry & Performance Engineer
Summary
This engineer provides operational visibility and performance support for data pipelines, data marts and cloud databases in Islamabad — building dashboards and alerts (Grafana, Azure Application Insights), tuning SQL queries, indexes and database configs, monitoring replication lag, and maintaining runbooks and escalation procedures.
Provide operational visibility and performance support for pipelines, data marts and cloud databases, including replication and indexing health.
Key responsibilities
- Implement dashboards and alerts for data freshness, pipeline throughput, replication lag, query latency and resource saturation.
- Tune SQL queries, indexes, table layouts and cloud-database configurations.
- Monitor data-mart replication and diagnose consistency or performance failures.
- Instrument services and jobs using Grafana, Azure Application Insights or approved observability tools.
- Establish performance baselines, investigate regressions and recommend corrective actions.
- Maintain operational runbooks, alert ownership and escalation procedures.
Required technical capabilities
- Minimum experience: 5+ years in database/platform performance engineering, observability or data-platform operations.
- Database performance tuning, indexing and query-plan analysis.
- Grafana, Azure Application Insights or comparable monitoring platforms.
- Cloud database operations and capacity monitoring.
- Replication, data-mart and ETL/ELT operational concepts.
- Metrics, logs, alert design and incident diagnosis.
- Clear evidence-based reporting of performance findings and changes.
Preferred experience
- Databricks/Spark observability and Delta Lake optimization.
- OpenTelemetry and cross-service correlation.
- Automated performance regression checks.
- Operational dashboards, alerts and ownership matrix.
- Performance baselines and prioritized tuning backlog.
- Implemented indexing/tuning changes with before-and-after evidence.
- Replication and database incident runbooks.
Primary interfaces
Works with Data Engineering, Python Data Engineering, cloud/platform operations and database owners.
What We Have For You
Great compensation package, medical benefit for you and your family, free lunch, annual performance-tied increments & performance recognition awards and a great lean and agile work culture!
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