Senior Performance Engineer – CI/CD, DevOps & Quality Engineering

Job Title: Senior Performance Engineer – CI/CD, DevOps & Quality Engineering

Location: Remote (India)
Job Type: Full-time / Contract [select one]
Pay: ₹1,20,000 – ₹1,30,000 per month
Experience: 7+ years total, with 5+ years in Performance Testing / Performance Engineering

About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Performance Engineer to lead performance engineering across our product and engineering teams. You will design and run performance testing strategies, find bottlenecks across applications, databases and infrastructure, and drive shift-left practices through CI/CD. You will also act as the performance engineering champion, influencing architecture decisions with data.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and execute performance, load, stress, endurance, volume and scalability tests
• Define and maintain performance testing frameworks, standards and best practices
• Analyze application, database, infrastructure and API bottlenecks and recommend optimizations
• Establish baselines, benchmarks, SLAs, SLOs and performance acceptance criteria
• Drive shift-left performance testing across the software development lifecycle
• Influence architectural decisions through data-driven performance recommendations
• Lead performance reviews and define performance maturity and continuous improvement roadmaps
• Define observability requirements and monitoring strategies, and analyze telemetry, logs, traces and application metrics
• Take part in design reviews, capacity planning and production readiness assessments
• Collaborate with Quality Engineering, Development, Architecture, Product, DevOps and Operations teams
• Communicate risks, findings and mitigation plans to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Mentor team members and share performance engineering knowledge

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 7+ years of IT experience, including 5+ years in Performance Testing / Performance Engineering
• Hands-on experience with K6, JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, NeoLoad or equivalent tools
• Strong understanding of web applications, REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems and cloud-native applications
• Strong SQL and database performance tuning skills
• Experience with CI/CD integration and shift-left performance testing
• Strong understanding of observability, telemetry, logs, traces and application metrics
• Experience with performance monitoring, dashboards and reporting
• Strong root cause analysis and performance optimization skills
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and technical presentation skills

AI Fluency

• Daily use of AI tools in engineering work, such as test design, script development, performance analysis, research and documentation
• Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated recommendations
• Understanding of responsible AI usage, governance and security considerations
• Willingness to experiment with emerging AI-driven engineering practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise SaaS environments and large-scale distributed systems
• Experience implementing performance engineering in Agile/DevOps organizations, or building a strategy from the ground up
• Knowledge of FinOps, cloud cost optimization and capacity forecasting
• ISTQB Performance Testing certification or equivalent
• Azure, AWS, Kubernetes or DevOps certifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or a related field

Additional Requirements

• Background verification (BGV) and a valid UAN are required
• Available to work remotely with reliable internet and a suitable workspace

How to Apply
Click "Apply Now" and upload your resume. Please mention your total experience, relevant performance engineering experience, current notice period and expected pay.

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Pay: ₹800,000.00 - ₹1,000,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Provident Fund

Work Location: In person