Performance Engineer(With SRE)
Role:- Performance Engineer with SRE and cloud(AWS) Experience Location:- Remote (United states and Canada) Contract: 12+ Months Job Description :- As a Performance Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, you will:
- Define performance, scalability, and reliability metrics aligned to business services (e.g., customer journeys, checkout, promotions, event‑driven sales, and holiday readiness).
- Design, automate, and own the end‑to‑end performance testing strategy, including load, stress, spike, soak, and capacity testing.
- Build and maintain capacity metrics and dashboards to support scaling decisions and cost optimization.
- Create clear, actionable performance reports and summaries for technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
- Leverage observability and monitoring platforms (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch) to analyze system performance and identify bottlenecks.
- Apply SRE metrics and frameworks such as availability, latency, saturation, DORA metrics, and service quality indicators.
- Contribute to automation initiatives that reduce toil and enable proactive or self‑healing responses to performance issues.
- Partner with engineering teams to identify performance risks early in the design and development phases.
- Advocate for performance engineering best practices and help raise performance literacy across the organization.
THE QUALIFICATIONS The Performance Engineer has:
- Hands‑on experience with performance/load testing concepts and methodologies.
- Solid understanding of Site Reliability Engineering fundamentals and principles.
- Strong knowledge of core performance metrics, including identifying/testing latency, throughput, error rates, resource utilization, and threading.
- Ability to write performance test plans, capacity models, and write detailed performance reports.
- Experience participating in incident response and driving or contributing to incident reviews.
- Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go, DOTNET).
- Familiarity with APIs, distributed systems, and cloud‑native architectures.
- Strong analytical thinking and problem‑solving skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Nice to Haves
- Experience with Infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (Terraform) is a plus
- Experience with 'Load Testing In Production' is a plus
- Experience with one or more load testing tools (e.g.,
k6 , JMeter , Gatling , Locust ).
- Experience with Salesforce, Cloudflare, or edge/CDN performance considerations.
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