Freelance Performance Engineer: Fast, Fault-Tolerant Systems

Energy Innovation Corp; Hammond (IN); On-site; USD 50,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a hands-on Performance Engineer to architect, code, and deploy with a focus on quality from Hammond, Indiana. This freelance role offers a meaningful impact on projects and growth within a fast-moving team that ships rapidly.

Responsibilities include aligning Persuasion configurations across environments, reducing cold-start times, and identifying race conditions that surface during peak traffic.

Qualifications

• Experience using GitLab CI in a technology setting.
• Demonstrates critical thinking and independent judgment.
• Growth mindset with openness to feedback and learning.

Responsibilities

• Wrangle Persuasion config across environments so Hammond staging mirrors production.
• Cut Persuasion cold-start times so Google functions wake before IN users notice.
• Catch the Persuasion race conditions that only surface under Hammond peak traffic.
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Microsoft Azure and Continuous Learning.
• Lead PHP design reviews that catch costly mistakes before Hammond, IN builds them.

Skills

GitLab CI

Critical thinking

Independent judgment

Growth mindset

Accountability

Job description

Google is seeking a hands-on Performance Engineer to architect, code, and deploy with a focus on quality from Hammond, Indiana. This freelance role offers a meaningful impact on projects and growth within a fast-moving team that ships rapidly.

Responsibilities include aligning Persuasion configurations across environments, reducing cold-start times, and identifying race conditions that surface during peak traffic.