Senior Performance Engineering and Observability Lead (Remote)
Core
Lead enterprise-wide performance engineering and observability strategy to ensure resilient, performant web and API services for customers.
Role type
Senior Performance Engineering and Observability Lead
Builds
Resilient, performant web experiences and microservices for Abercrombie & Fitch customers
Domain
E-commerce, Cloud-native distributed systems, Performance Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Performance engineering strategy, Load/stress testing, Observability (Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana), Kubernetes/AKS, CI/CD integration, API testing (REST/GraphQL), Workload modeling, SLO/SLI definition
Preferred skills
Micro Frontend architectures, Springboot, Infrastructure as Code, Containerized testing environments
Technologies
k6, Playwright, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, AKS, GitLab, Node.js, NPM
Responsibilities
Define and maintain NFRs (SLIs/SLOs, latency targets), Lead readiness for major releases and seasonal traffic spikes, Build and execute performance, load, stress, and endurance tests, Integrate performance baselines and fail-fast rules into CI/CD pipelines, Conduct chaos testing and failure injection validation, Guide architecture for UI, API, mobile, and integration test frameworks
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership scope