Senior Software Engineer - Performance & Resiliency
Core
Senior Performance & Resiliency Engineer leading load/stress testing, capacity modeling, and production reliability for high-volume distributed systems.
Role type
Senior IC performance engineering lead
Builds
High-throughput, low-latency financial platforms and critical infrastructure
Domain
Financial Services / Distributed Systems / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
performance engineering, distributed systems, production reliability, cloud architecture, container orchestration, observability, incident management, capacity planning, progressive delivery, resilience patterns
Preferred skills
AWS EKS, KEDA, Karpenter, Akamai, ECS
Technologies
AWS, CloudWatch, Datadog, Dynatrace, Grafana, Karpenter, KEDA, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, DevOps
Responsibilities
Lead load, stress, and soak testing; improve production readiness via observability and incident triage; strengthen resilience patterns (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers); drive safer releases using canary and progressive delivery; optimize containerized workloads and autoscaling strategies.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship
