CareerPlan

Senior Performance Test Engineer

USAFull-time$120k–$160k2026-11-02 → 2026-11-08
Hybrid

Core

Design and execute chaos engineering experiments and performance tests to validate the resilience and high availability of distributed microservices architectures.

Role type

Senior IC performance test engineer (chaos engineering)

Builds

Resilient distributed systems and microservices

Domain

Cloud infrastructure and distributed systems

Required skills

chaos engineering, performance testing, reliability engineering, SRE, DevOps, microservices architecture, Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), observability, distributed systems, high availability, disaster recovery

Preferred skills

Harness CE, Gremlin, open-source chaos tools, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk, AppDynamics

Technologies

AWS, Azure, Datadog, DevOps, Dynatrace, GCP, Grafana, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Prometheus, Splunk

Responsibilities

Define chaos engineering strategy, scope, objectives, and success criteria; Design hypotheses and chaos experiments for infrastructure, pod/VM, and network failures; Integrate chaos testing with observability platforms; Coordinate with architecture, SRE, DevOps, and development teams

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC