Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and execute performance, load, stress, endurance, and scalability testing strategies.
- Define performance goals, SLAs, and success criteria for platform services and customer-facing applications.
- Build and maintain automated performance testing frameworks and pipelines.
- Analyze application, database, API, and infrastructure metrics to identify bottlenecks and recommend optimizations.
- Collaborate with software engineers, architects, and SRE teams to improve scalability, resiliency, and efficiency.
- Conduct capacity planning and provide recommendations for infrastructure scaling.
- Create performance dashboards, monitoring solutions, and reports.
- Validate the performance impact of new features, architecture changes, and production releases.
- Lead root cause analysis for performance-related incidents and identify improvement opportunities.
- Mentor engineers and establish performance engineering best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 7+ years of experience in Performance Engineering, Performance Testing, or Site Reliability Engineering.
- Hands-on experience with performance testing tools including JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, k6, and Locust.
- Experience testing high-scale SaaS platforms, web applications, APIs, and microservices architectures.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, performance tuning methodologies, and scalability patterns.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS.
- Proficiency in Java, Python, JavaScript, or Go.
- Strong knowledge of SQL and database performance tuning concepts.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, or Splunk.
- Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
About FloQast
FloQast is the AI Accounting Transformation Platform built by accountants, for accountants. Accounting is entering its AI era. FloQast is building the platform that defines it. We understand the different nuances in how accounting is managed from company to company -- business growth leads to increased complexity, yet teams are faced to respond without additional resources. It's why our Agents are designed to automate specific accounting workflows without compromising security or auditability. Our ISO 42001 certification can attest the accountant retains the final judgement call and has full visibility into all agent interactions. More than 3,500 global teams, including Lululemon, Chipotle, and Shopify, rely on FloQast to reduce manual work, strengthen compliance, and move from preparation to strategic review with confidence. We are not replacing accountants. We are equipping them with AI built for the way accounting actually works. Through our free FloQast Certified Accountant program, we are also investing in the next generation of AI enabled accounting professionals.