[Hiring] Senior Performance Test Engineer @roadie

roadie; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics and delivery platform is seeking a Senior Performance Test Engineer. This remote role involves designing performance testing strategies and collaborating with developers to optimize system performance in a fast-paced environment. You will analyze performance metrics and provide actionable recommendations to ensure scalability and resilience.

Benefits

100% covered health insurance premiums

401k with company match

Tuition and student loan repayment assistance

Flexible work schedule with unlimited PTO

Monthly 3-day weekends

Monthly WFH stipend

Paid sabbatical leave

Technology needed to get the job done

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in QA, Development, or Site Reliability.
• Proficiency in Python or JavaScript/Go/Ruby, and SQL.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute load and performance testing strategies.
• Investigate performance issues in both test and production environments.
• Collaborate closely with developers to understand service architecture.

Skills

Performance Engineering

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

JMeter

AWS

New Relic

AppDynamics

Dynatrace

Job description

May 17, 2025 - roadie is hiring a remote Senior Performance Test Engineer. Salary: competitive compensation packages. Location: USA.

Roadie, a UPS company, is a leading logistics and delivery platform that helps businesses tackle the complexities of modern retail with unmatched delivery coverage, flexibility and visibility. Reaching 97% of U.S. households across more than 30,000 zip codes — from urban hubs to rural communities — Roadie provides seamless, scalable solutions that meet a variety of delivery needs.

With a network of more than 310,000 independent drivers nationwide, Roadie offers flexible delivery solutions that make complex logistics challenges easy, including solutions for local same-day delivery, delivery of big and bulky items, ship-from-store and DC-to-door.

Our innovative engineers are building technology that solves real-world problems in the crowdsourced delivery space. We’re looking for a Senior Performance Test Engineer who can go beyond traditional black-box testing and play a critical role in performance issue analysis and optimization. In this role, you will help ensure our systems scale efficiently to meet growing business demands in a fast-paced CI/CD environment.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and execute load and performance testing strategies
• Investigate performance issues in both test and production environments
• Collaborate closely with developers to understand service architecture and behavior, define relevant KPIs, and implement effective observability and monitoring
• Provide actionable optimization recommendations across database, infrastructure, and application code
• Correlate test results with production metrics to validate expected system behavior
• Build and maintain modular, reusable test scripts that can adapt to evolving project needs
• Simulate real-world user scenarios to help teams reproduce and resolve complex production issues
• Analyze system telemetry to identify and troubleshoot live performance bottlenecks
• Support peak season planning efforts by validating system resilience and scalability under projected peak loads

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience in QA, Development, or Site Reliability with a strong focus on performance engineering
• Proficiency in Python or JavaScript/Go/Ruby, and SQL
• Hands-on experience with microservices-based architectures, AWS, and APM tools such as New Relic, AppDynamics, or Dynatrace
• Expertise with any performance testing tools such as JMeter, Locust, k6, Gatling
• Ability to extract and analyze performance metrics from relational databases
• Strong grasp of performance testing methodologies, planning, and root cause analysis techniques
• Experience in fast-paced agile environments with short release cycles
• Detail-oriented with a methodical and analytical approach to problem-solving

Why Roadie?

• Competitive compensation packages
• 100% covered health insurance premiums for yourself
• 401k with company match
• Tuition and student loan repayment assistance (that’s right - Roadie will contribute directly to your existing student loans!)
• Flexible work schedule with unlimited PTO
• Monthly 3-day weekends
• Monthly WFH stipend
• Paid sabbatical leave- tenured team members are given time to rest, relax, and explore
• The technology you need to get the job done