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Senior Performance Engineer

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Location: Remote
Compensation: To Be Discussed
Reviewed: Wed, Nov 04, 2026
This job expires in: 29 days

Job Summary

Leading performance engineering activities, the full-time Senior Performance Engineer will define test strategies, develop testing frameworks, and evaluate application scalability and reliability while collaborating with various technical and business teams.

Key responsibilities
  • Lead performance testing activities including planning, workload modeling, test design, and stakeholder communication
  • Design and execute load, stress, and scalability testing scenarios while analyzing performance metrics to identify bottlenecks
  • Establish performance engineering standards and integrate performance validation into CI/CD pipelines
Required qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, statistics, or a related field
  • 5+ years of hands-on performance testing experience, with at least 2 years in a technical lead role
  • Strong experience with performance testing enterprise applications across various API styles and architectural patterns
  • Proficiency in deploying and managing JMeter or comparable tools in cloud-hosted environments
  • Experience integrating performance tests into CI/CD pipelines and supporting shift-left performance engineering practices

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