Senior Performance Engineer

5+ years (for Senior level) or 8+ years (for Staff level) of professional experience in roles such as Performance Engineer, Software Engineer in Test, SRE, DevOps, or Software Engineer with a deep focus on performance, scalability, and reliability. Strong software development fundamentals and significant hands-on experience building, testing, and maintaining complex applications or infrastructure using Go and/or Python. Proficiency in Go is highly desired. Deep, hands-on expertise with Kubernetes concepts, architecture, and workflows. Proven ability to design, implement, and optimize complex CI/CD pipelines to integrate automated testing, including performance testing. Experience with tools like GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar is essential. Expert-level understanding of performance testing methodologies, including load, stress, spike, endurance, and scalability testing. Exceptional analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills with a proven ability to diagnose and solve complex, cross-service performance issues in distributed systems. Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas clearly and effectively.

Architect and Execute Performance Strategy for Truelark Scaling Design and Build a Self-Service Performance Testing Platform Champion and Codify Performance Best Practices Conduct Deep-Dive Bottleneck Analysis and System Tuning Define and Monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs)