Software Engineer - Performance Engineering

Description

The team works to make the company's web and mobile platforms faster, more scalable, and more reliable.

This is a fully hands-on role that covers designing, running, and growing performance engineering practices across frontend and backend systems.

You will work alongside digital, application, platform, and data teams to find performance bottlenecks, make improvements you can measure, and build performance practices into everyday development.

Responsibilities

• Plan and run performance tests of all kinds, including load, stress, spike, endurance, and benchmark tests, across web, mobile, and backend systems.
• Build and maintain reproducible, scalable test suites using tools such as k6, Gatling, JMeter, Locust, and similar frameworks.
• Find and fix bottlenecks anywhere in the stack, from frontend rendering to APIs, services, databases, caches, networking, and distributed systems.
• Improve backend and infrastructure latency, throughput, resource use, and overall efficiency.
• Add performance tests and regression checks to CI/CD pipelines so performance stays measured and protected.
• Build profiling, tracing, and telemetry solutions using observability tools.
• Work with engineering teams on performance problems, giving detailed technical guidance and hands-on help.
• Lead the spread of performance engineering practices across several teams, so performance is considered early in design and development.
• Run experiments, analyze performance data, and recommend actions that produce lasting, measurable gains.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on performance optimization, scalability, or observability.
• A solid grasp of distributed systems concepts such as caching, concurrency, queuing, and resource contention.
• 4+ years of hands-on work with performance testing tools such as k6, Gatling, JMeter, or Locust, plus familiarity with Core Web Vitals and frontend performance monitoring.
• Experience with metrics, logging, and tracing systems.
• Strong skills in debugging, profiling, and solving problems at the systems level.
• Experience working with frontend and backend teams and supporting high-scale or consumer-facing platforms.

Conditions

The base salary range is $90,000-$120,000 per year for this exempt position. Actual pay depends on factors such as location, experience, and performance, and the final base salary may occasionally be above the top of the range.

The base salary is one part of the total rewards package for exempt employees, which may also include performance bonuses, long-term incentives, a PTO policy, and other benefits.

Benefits

• Performance bonuses, long-term incentives, PTO, and other benefits are part of the total rewards package for exempt employees.