Head of Reliability & Performance Automation

Blue Shield of CA; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellarus Technology seeks a Director of Performance Engineering and Test Automation to design and implement automated performance and reliability validation across its platform. You will partner with engineering to set standards, tooling, and expectations for scalable, observable services in production.

A leader who can cultivate automation and continuous learning will thrive. You will lead efforts in synthetic monitoring, AI-assisted testing considerations, and CI/CD integration to deliver

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher with 4+ years of relevant experience.
• 10 years of software engineering, quality engineering, performance engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or related technical experience.
• 6 years leading teams or technical programs focused on performance, test automation, reliability, platform quality, or production readiness.
• Strong hands-on background building automated test systems, load testing frameworks, performance pipelines, or reliability validation tooling.
• Experience testing distributed systems, microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native applications.
• Practical understanding of latency, throughput, concurrency, queueing, backpressure, retries, caching, database performance, resource saturation, and failure modes in production systems.
• Experience with tools such as k6, Gatling, JMeter, Locust, Playwright, Cypress, Jest, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, New Relic, Azure Monitor, or similar platforms.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and making test results useful to engineering teams.
• Experience evaluating or applying AI-assisted engineering tools for test generation, analysis, automation, or developer productivity is preferred.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure, API gateways, message queues, relational databases, and service observability.
• Ability to work with engineers at code, architecture, infrastructure, and operational levels.
• Experience defining performance benchmarks, synthetic workloads, test data strategies, production-like environments, and release readiness criteria.
• Strong communication skills. You can explain performance risk clearly and turn findings into practical engineering action.
• Healthcare, payer, regulated-industry, SOC 2, HIPAA, or security-sensitive platform experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define strategy and implementation for performance testing, load testing, scalability validation, resilience testing, synthetic monitoring, test data automation, and release gates across the Stellarus platform.
• Work directly with developers to define standards, patterns, tooling, and expectations teams use when they design, build, test, and operate services.
• Build and own automation tooling, test pipelines, and production-readiness criteria.
• Lead culture and teams toward continuous learning and high-performing delivery.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure performance signals drive actionable improvements.

Skills

Performance engineering

Test automation

SRE / platform engineering

Distributed systems

CI/CD integration

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

AI-assisted testing tools

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

High School Diploma/GED

Tools

K6

Gatling

JMeter

Locust

Playwright

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

New Relic

Azure Monitor

Job description

Stellarus Technology seeks a Director of Performance Engineering and Test Automation to design and implement automated performance and reliability validation across its platform. You will partner with engineering to set standards, tooling, and expectations for scalable, observable services in production.

A leader who can cultivate automation and continuous learning will thrive. You will lead efforts in synthetic monitoring, AI-assisted testing considerations, and CI/CD integration to deliver