Senior Performance Engineer
Core
Design, develop, and execute performance, load, stress, and scalability testing strategies for distributed cloud applications to ensure reliability and efficiency.
Role type
Senior Performance Engineer (IC)
Builds
Automated performance testing frameworks, pipelines, dashboards, and monitoring solutions integrated with CI/CD.
Domain
Cloud-native SaaS, distributed systems, microservices
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
Performance testing strategy, load/stress testing, CI/CD integration, capacity planning, root cause analysis, SQL tuning, distributed systems knowledge, cloud-native architecture, observability, scripting (Java/Python/Go/JS), performance tuning methodologies
Preferred skills
Mentorship, establishing best practices, high-scale SaaS experience
Technologies
JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, k6, Locust, AWS, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, Splunk