Software Engineer – Performance and Tools

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Enhance and maintain internal synthetic data generation tools.

• Assist quality and development teams with their test data generation needs.

• Acquire knowledge and improve the in-house test data generation tool.

• Create solutions with a focus on artificial intelligence.

• Design, develop, and execute performance testing scenarios.

• Analyze and resolve performance bottlenecks in applications, infrastructure, and databases.

• Incorporate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.

• Collaborate with Development, QA, DevOps, and SRE teams to address performance challenges.

• Implement AI/ML techniques within performance testing processes.

• Embed observability tools into performance analysis and associated workflows.

• Conduct load, stress, spike, endurance/soak, volume, and scalability tests.

• Generate performance reports and establish reporting frameworks.

• Offer recommendations for optimization.

• Validate and enhance the scalability and reliability of enterprise applications and cloud-native systems.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

• 3–8 years of experience in Software Development and Performance Testing/Performance Engineering.

• Prior experience with Python for backend application development.

• Basic familiarity with JavaScript for frontend web development.

• Proficient in SQL, database design principles, and database technologies.

• Skilled in writing and optimizing SQL queries and evaluating database performance.

• Experienced with AI tools such as Claude and Copilot while delivering quality solutions.

• Knowledgeable in Performance Engineering concepts.

• Hands-on experience with performance testing tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, k6, Locust, NeoLoad, or BlazeMeter.

• Familiar with application monitoring tools such as Datadog, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, AWS CloudWatch, or Google Cloud Monitoring.

• Experienced in analyzing logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerts for root cause analysis.

• Background in Agile/Scrum environments.

• Good understanding of Java for troubleshooting performance issues.

• Knowledge of PostgreSQL.

• Familiarity with Ruby/Rails.

• Solid understanding of AWS and GCP.

• Understanding of Git repositories and GitLab Pipelines.

• Experience working in CI/CD environments.

• Knowledge of APIs, microservices, Docker, and Kubernetes.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication abilities.

• Capability to work across multiple time zones in a hybrid or remote setting.

• May be required to undergo a pre-employment criminal background check.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual base salary in the US ranging from $123,000 to $132,000.

• Option for remote work.

• Hybrid or remote work environment available.

• Travel may be required based on company needs.

• Reasonable accommodations provided for individuals with disabilities.

• Equal opportunity employer dedicated to workforce diversity.