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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in performance engineering, including the design and implementation of automated testing strategies, performance baselines, and observability practices. Proficient in collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance system performance and reliability through effective testing and analysis.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Performance Engineering StrategyAutomated Load TestingCI/CD IntegrationPerformance Bottleneck DiagnosisCloud Infrastructure Expertise
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Hard Skills
Performance TestingJavaGoPythonJavaScriptK6GatlingJMeterLocustDistributed Systems
Soft Skills
Clear CommunicationInfluencing Technical Decisions
Tools & Technologies
CI/CD PipelinesObservability ToolsProfiling ToolsKubernetesMicroservices
Industry Keywords
Site Reliability EngineeringCloud-Native SystemsPerformance BaselinesService-Level ObjectivesCapacity Models
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesCloudDistributed SystemsJavaJavaScriptJMeterKubernetesMicroservicesPythonTypeScriptGo
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Design and own the performance engineering strategy for products and distributed services
- Build and maintain automated load, stress, spike, soak, scalability, and resilience tests as version-controlled code
- Integrate performance tests, thresholds, and regression detection into CI/CD workflows
- Define performance baselines, service-level objectives, and release criteria with service owners and SRE
- Diagnose performance bottlenecks using observability data, profiling, tracing, logs, metrics, and experimentation
- Partner with software engineers, architects, SRE, product, and platform teams to design for performance early
- Create repeatable test environments, workloads, data sets, and capacity models for cloud-native systems
- Develop dashboards and automated reporting for performance trends, regressions, and risks
- Improve performance engineering practices, tooling, documentation, and technical standards
- Coach engineers on performance testing, measurement, root-cause analysis, and automated quality practices
- Use AI coding agents such as Claude Code to build and maintain test suites, generate workloads, and analyze results
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, performance engineering, site reliability engineering, or a closely related discipline
- Substantial hands-on performance testing experience
- Strong software development skills in at least one language such as Java, Go, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript
- Hands-on experience with performance and load-testing tools such as k6, Gatling, JMeter, Locust, or equivalent
- Experience automating tests and quality gates in modern CI/CD pipelines
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure
- Experience analyzing latency, throughput, concurrency, error rates, resource saturation, and capacity limits
- Experience using observability and profiling tools to isolate bottlenecks across application, database, network, and infrastructure layers
- Ability to translate business-critical user journeys and reliability expectations into realistic workloads, measurable thresholds, and actionable engineering recommendations
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams
Benefits
Comp & perks- Unlimited BEE-Flexible PTO combining vacation, sick time, and personal days
- Paid U.S. holidays
- 2 dedicated Bee-Giving Days for volunteering
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage from day one
- HSA contributions with HDHP enrollment
- Competitive 401(k) company match with pre-tax and Roth options
- Fully funded Life and AD&D insurance
- Fully funded Short Term Disability and Long Term Disability protection
- Fully covered Employee Assistance Program
- Company-sponsored Headspace account
- Dedicated Care Concierge service in the U.S.
- Monthly home-office setup stipend
- Hybrid office opportunity for Denver, CO employees
- Stock options
- Variable bonuses
- Professional growth and development opportunities
- Global, collaborative team environment