.**Travelport is a place of opportunity. It's our incredible team that makes our company great - our people drive our winning culture.****What's Travelport?**Travelport is a worldwide travel retail platform. Our next-generation marketplace connects buyers and sellers that share our passion for delivering exceptional travel experiences. Unconflicted and independent, we are reinventing a simpler future for travel's complex ecosystem.**What does a great **Performance Engineer **do?**Travelport's performance engineers develop solutions that provide industry-leading travel solutions enabling our customers to search, compare and buy travel. Our search products handle requests at a massive and ever-growing scale. Our performance engineers thrive providing solutions that reduce cost and increase function in the demanding, NP-Hard air pricing domain.We are looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas including data construction and consumption, performance optimization and testing, pattern development and machine learning. As a performance engineer, you will work on one of the world's most unique and powerful systems processing billions of sub-second transactions per year. To work in this demanding area, we need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems as the features and technology continue to evolve in the exciting travel industry.In Travelport's Performance Pillar, we hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on millions of users. We are delivering on a next-generation marketplace that connects buyers and sellers that share our passion for exceptional travel experiences.**Responsibilities**:- Build and maintain hardware/software simulators to enable faster evaluation of options and solutions.- Build tools to extract metrics from running workloads and perform data analysis to identify areas of improvement.- Maintain benchmarks, and study product roadmaps for upcoming impacts while collaborating with other teams to improve the end-to-end flow and results.- Analyze system software to identify bottlenecks and improve performance or cost (TCO).- Collaborate with an internationally distributed team with members representing Customer Experience, Enterprise Architecture, Software Engineering, Product Owners, Information Security, and outside vendors.- Generate and socialize ideas, then take swift action to improve overall system design and performance, and to streamline the delivery of new features.- Understand search technologies and their interactions with adjacent systems. Design new features with an emphasis on the long-term performance and scalability of the system database