DBA Product Performance Engineer

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Job Description:

DBA Product Performance Engineer (Solventum)

3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Product Performance Engineer with deep expertise in database performance in addition to load, stress, spike, endurance, performance, scalability, and system integration automation testing. You will script complex workflows, execute performance tests, analyze results, and identify root causes of performance issues. In this role, you will be responsible for identifying, analyzing, and resolving performance bottlenecks across our systems, with a primary focus on ensuring optimal performance of our database infrastructure and recommending improvements as needed.

As a DBA Product Performance Engineer, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the company.

How you will make an impact

• Analyze system performance issues across application and database layers.

• Profile and make suggestions to optimize database performance (e.g., query tuning, indexing, caching strategies).

• Design and implement performance benchmarks, load tests, and stress tests.

• Monitor and troubleshoot database slowdowns and scalability issues.

• Work with cloud and on-prem infrastructure to fine-tune database environments (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS-SQL, or similar).

• Architecting, designing, developing, and supporting test infrastructure that can enable continuous delivery of quality healthcare software Scripting challenging workflows using advanced options in Selenium and Jmeter

• Running performance testing on a complex software application and reporting issues

• Analyzing testing results and providing the root cause of the issues

Your Skills and Expertise 
To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or related fields AND 7 years of experience with Software Development and Performance Engineering

OR

• High school diploma/GED and 12 years of experience with software development and performance engineering

In addition to the above requirements, the following are also required:

• Eight (8) years of experience with Database architecture and performance

• Five (5) years of demonstrated experience scripting with Jmeter and running tests in Blazemeter, and analyzing using APM tools like New Relic

• Three (3) years of experience of Jenkins, Git, TFS, or other similar tools, and hand-on experience with debugging and tuning of Application servers, JVM, GC, heap, and thread dump analysis related to performance issues

• Two (2) years of hands-on experience in cloud performance testing, with a focus on integrated performance testing between cloud-based (AWS) and on-premises applications

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Five (5) years of experience using Agile methodology in a private, public, government or military environment

• Three (3) years of experience in manipulating HL7 messages and integrating healthcare interfaces using the Connexion framework

• Ability to meet timelines set in project plans and produce a high-quality product, take individual initiative and responsibility for assignments, adapt to changing priorities, quickly learn and apply new tools and technology

Work location: Hybrid

Travel: May include up to [1%][domestic/international]

Relocation Assistance: Not authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Supporting Your Well-being 

Solventum offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, Solventum regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.

Onboarding Requirement: To improve the onboarding experience, you will have an opportunity to meet with your manager and other new employees as part of the Solventum new employee orientation. As a result, new employees hired for this position will be required to travel to a designated company location for on-site onboarding during their initial days of employment. Travel arrangements and related expenses will be coordinated and paid for by the company in accordance with its travel policy. Applies to new hires with a start date of October 1st 2025 or later.

Applicable to US Applicants Only:The expected compensation range for this position is $119,076 - $145,537, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant knowledge, training, skills, work location, and/or experience. In addition, this position may be eligible for a range of benefits (e.g., Medical, Dental & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences and Retirement Benefits, etc.). Additional information is available at: https://www.solventum.com/en-us/home/our-company/careers/#Total-Rewards

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