CareerPlan

Platform Performance & Resilience (AI-Enabled) Engineer

Durham, NCFull-time2026-09-30 → 2026-11-10
No visa sponsorship

Core

Lead performance, scalability, and resilience engineering for a distributed platform spanning edge devices, in-store servers, and cloud services, leveraging AI to scale non-functional validation.

Role type

Senior IC Platform Performance & Resilience Engineer

Builds

Distributed retail commerce platform (POS, store servers, cloud services)

Domain

Retail technology, distributed systems, performance engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

distributed systems architecture, performance engineering, scalability design, k6, capacity planning, infrastructure sizing, resilience patterns, cloud-native systems, Kubernetes, debugging, AI-driven validation

Preferred skills

multi-tier architectures, simulation/virtualization environments, event-driven systems, observability frameworks, AI-driven testing

Technologies

k6, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Kafka, Pub/Sub, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, ELK

Responsibilities

Engage with customers to define performance expectations and operational constraints; design and lead platform-wide performance testing strategies; build virtualized environments simulating production-scale behavior; own infrastructure sizing models for customer SOWs; define system behavior under failures and degraded dependencies; ensure end-to-end transaction visibility and telemetry; use AI-driven systems to generate and evaluate performance scenarios.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC