Performance Test Engineer

You Will

• Report to a QE Manager.
• Partner with Engineering, Quality Engineering, Product, and SRE teams to review requirements, identify performance risks, execute performance tests, and troubleshoot performance-related issues.
• Design, develop, and execute performance test strategies, scenarios, and workloads based on business events, system architecture, and scalability requirements.
• Analyze performance test results, application metrics, logs, traces, and infrastructure data to identify bottlenecks and performance improvement opportunities.
• Maintain and enhance performance testing frameworks, tooling, automation, and best practices to improve efficiency, accuracy, and coverage.
• Evaluate system scalability, reliability, and capacity under varying workloads, and provide data-driven recommendations for performance optimization.
• Communicate performance findings, risks, bottlenecks, and recommendations to Engineering, Product, SRE, and leadership stakeholders.
• Contribute to performance engineering practices, methodologies, capacity planning efforts, and platform performance standards.
• Partner with Engineering and SRE teams to improve application performance, scalability, resiliency, and resource utilization.
• Enable and guide POD teams by providing performance testing frameworks, documentation, mentoring, and best practices for service-level performance ownership.
• Identify gaps, risks, and process inefficiencies, and proactively drive continuous improvements across performance testing workflows and practices.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize performance test assets, including scripts, test data, environments, monitoring dashboards, and configurations, while supporting the ongoing performance certification of the Byte Platform.

You Have

• A bachelor’s in CS, CIS, engineering, or equivalent experience.
• A minimum of 5+ years of experience in performance engineering.
• 3+ years of experience with code-first performance testing tool k6 and performance analysis via Datadog or similar platforms.
• Advanced coding skills in JavaScript or TypeScript.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience working with microservices architectures, including RESTful and GraphQL APIs and web applications.
• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and Kubernetes, including monitoring, scaling, and troubleshooting.
• Proven ability to perform profile/baseline, load and stress testing, soak, spike testing etc.
• Proven ability to drill down into results and complete deep dive root cause analysis.
• Strong technical communication and documentation skills.

Salary Range: $109,400 to $128,600 annually + bonus eligibility. This is the expected salary range for this position. Ultimately, in determining pay, we'll consider the successful candidate’s location, experience, and other job-related factors.