CareerPlan

Senior Software Engineer

Raleigh, USFull-time$160k–$196k2026-10-29 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Lead the creation and refinement of the overarching Konflux Performance Strategy, ensuring alignment with user expectations for stability, throughput, and speed.

Role type

Senior Performance Engineering Lead (CI/CD & Observability)

Builds

Performance baselines, SLIs/SLOs, and observability stacks for the Konflux ecosystem

Domain

Open Source / CI/CD / Container Orchestration

Required skills

Linux kernel and device drivers, performance testing strategies, observability stacks, container orchestration, performance monitoring, capacity planning, cost optimization

Preferred skills

chaos engineering frameworks, load/stress/endurance methodologies, Jira epics/stories

Technologies

k6, Locust, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, ELK, Splunk, Tekton, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etcd

Responsibilities

Analyze user performance requirements and identify gaps in current testing approaches; Assess ROI of performance testing tools and strategies; Drive definition of performance baselines, SLIs, and SLOs; Work with engineering, QE, SRE, and product teams to embed performance considerations; Define requirements for performance monitoring and automated alerting; Analyze potential performance bottlenecks and recommend optimization strategies; Translate strategic goals into actionable tasks for capacity planning and testing implementation.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC