About the role
Responsibilities Partner with Engineering, Quality Engineering, Product, and SRE teams to identify performance risks and troubleshoot issues Design, develop, and execute performance test strategies, scenarios, and workloads Analyze performance test results, application metrics, logs, traces, and infrastructure data to identify bottlenecks Maintain and enhance performance testing frameworks, tooling, and automation Evaluate system scalability, reliability, and capacity under varying workloads Communicate performance findings and recommendations to stakeholders Contribute to performance engineering practices and capacity planning Enable and guide POD teams through mentoring and documentation Develop and optimize performance test assets including scripts, test data, and monitoring dashboards Requirements Bachelor's in CS, CIS, engineering, or equivalent experience Minimum 5+ years of experience in performance engineering 3+ years of experience with k6 and Datadog or similar platforms Advanced coding skills in JavaScript or TypeScript 3+ years of hands-on experience with microservices architectures (RESTful and GraphQL APIs) Extensive experience with AWS cloud services and Kubernetes Proven ability to perform profile/baseline, load, stress, soak, and spike testing Strong technical communication and documentation skills