Software Engineer II - Performance Engineering

International Business Machines Corporation; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM in Bengaluru is seeking an Engineer II in the Performance Engineering team to ensure scalability, high availability, and reliability of cloud-based software systems. You will lead performance analysis, identify bottlenecks, and drive improvements across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will build and maintain an automation framework for ephemeral, scalable test environments, run load tests, analyze results, and deliver dashboards and reports to help teams optimize performance and

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in performance engineering or related fields with a focus on performance testing or system scalability.
• Strong programming skills in Python and Go with scripting language exposure.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines for automated testing.
• Hands-on experience with performance testing tools like K6, Artillery, Vegeta, Locust; proven cloud and on‑prem testing.
• Proven track record of leading performance testing initiatives and optimizing large-scale systems.
• Experience creating test environments and dashboards for performance insights.

Responsibilities

• Implement best practices for system reliability and automated mitigations.
• Design and execute performance testing strategies for cloud products to identify bottlenecks.
• Work with engineering teams to identify and mitigate bottlenecks in applications and infrastructure.
• Integrate performance readiness into the development lifecycle to improve stability and user experience.
• Build and refine automation tools for testing, environment simulation, and incident reproduction.
• Analyze testing results and deliver actionable recommendations for system improvements.
• Drive systemic improvements through Chaos Engineering in collaboration with product teams.
• Share knowledge to foster learning and continuous improvement.
• Develop disaster recovery and backup strategies to ensure data integrity and resilience.

Skills

Python

Go

Scripting

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Git

K6

Artillery

Vegeta

Locust

Datadog

Prometheus

Kubernetes

Nomad

Terraform

Packer

Job description

Your Role and Responsibilities:

As an Engineer II for the Performance Engineering team, you will play a critical role in ensuring the scalability, performance, and reliability of our software systems . Your work will be central to enhancing system resilience, optimizing performance at scale, and ensuring products deliver high availability in dynamic cloud environments. Your experience in Performance engineering, or systems engineering, or reliability engineering or a related field, you will lead efforts to identify performance bottlenecks, address, and mitigate operational challenges before they impact our customers. Your expertise in load testing, performance analysis, and system hardening will ensure that our services meet the highest standards of scale and performance excellence.

You'll have the opportunity to dive deep into the architecture of IBM HashiCorp's products, including both our cloud and enterprise offerings. You'll take ownership of building and maintaining an advanced automation framework that powers ephemeral, scalable environments, enabling controlled scaling efforts and performance regression testing.

Your work will directly impact how we validate and optimize performance across our systems. From spinning up environments to scaling them dynamically and tearing them down on demand, you'll own the end-to-end lifecycle of our test engines. Beyond that, you'll play an important role in analysing results, creating insightful dashboards, and delivering actionable reports to help teams identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and throttling issues.

What you'll do (responsibilities)

• Implement best practices for system reliability, including proactive identification of potential failure points and the development of automated mitigations


• Design and execute comprehensive performance testing strategies to identify performance bottlenecks and scalability limits across our cloud products


• Work with the engineering teams to identify potential application and infrastructure bottlenecks and suggest changes.


• Work closely with engineering and product teams to integrate performance engineering readiness into the development lifecycle, enhancing product stability and user satisfaction.


• Build and refine tools and frameworks for automated testing, environment simulation, and incident reproduction, reducing manual effort and increasing test coverage.


• Conduct in-depth analysis of testing results, documenting findings and making actionable recommendations for system enhancements.


• Drive Systemic Improvements to the products by introducing Chaos Testing and partnering with product development teams.


• Share your knowledge and expertise with team members, fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.


• Develop and implement disaster recovery and backup strategies to ensure data integrity and system resilience.

Required Education:

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Education:

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical and Professional Expertise:

• 4+ years of experience in performance engineering, systems engineering, reliability engineering or non functional testing roles with a focus on performance testing, load testing or system scalability.


• Strong programming skills in Python / Golang and exposure to scripting languages like javascript or shell script


• Experience with version control systems such as Git.


• Strong experience with performance testing tools like K6, Artillery, Vegeta, Locust etc or similar tools for deriving key performance metrics for a product


• Proven track record of leading successful performance testing and optimization initiatives in cloud and on-prem environments.


• Experience in creating and managing test environments for automated testing.


• Experience in creating CI/CD pipelines and maintaining quality gates for system testing.


• Understanding of monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog or Prometheus to develop dashboards indicating metrics that accurately reflect system performance and load break points and regressions.


• Exposure to cloud technologies ( AWS, Azure, Or GCP) and container technologies like Nomad or Kubernetes and/Or working in a Hybrid cloud environment.


• Effective communication and collaboration skills, capable of working with cross-functional teams and articulating technical concepts to diverse audiences.

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience:

• You have experience using HashiCorp products (Terraform, Packer, Waypoint, Nomad, Vault, Boundary, Consul).


• Experience with Javascript development / using any test framework based on Java script is a plus.


• Experience in driving systemic improvements through Chaos engineering is a plus.

Years of Experience:

4 - 7