Performance Engineer

Filetwigbay; Las Cruces (NM); Remote; USD 65,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

NexGen Systems is opening a temporary Performance Engineer role in Las Cruces, NM. The position demands fluency in Jenkins and experience with Rust, Tailwind CSS, and cloud-native deployments.

This is a 4-year term with a competitive anchor of $65,000–$98,000 per year. You'll pair with technology analysts, containerize applications, and help scale Terraform services while guiding mid-level initiatives and maintaining reliability across NM.

Qualifications

• Sound instincts for reading a room you've never been in before.
• Proven leadership experience guiding mid-level-level initiatives.
• Working knowledge of Relationship Building alongside transferable Jest chops.
• Demonstrated calm when a Las Cruces, NM client changes scope mid-stream.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, gently-demanding environment.

Responsibilities

• Pair with technology analysts so NexGen Systems's Rust models match real behavior
• Containerize applications and manage deployments with Rust and Tailwind CSS
• Resurrect flaky Attention Management tests until the Las Cruces, NM suite is trustworthy again
• Scale NexGen Systems's Terraform services from Las Cruces pilot to NM-wide rollout
• Turn NexGen Systems's Jest on-call noise into alerts that actually mean something
• Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture
• Walk technology stakeholders through Jest tradeoffs in language NexGen Systems execs grasp

Skills

Leadership experience

Relationship building

Adaptability in fast-paced env

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Jenkins

Rust

Terraform

Tailwind CSS

Jest

Job description

We're opening a temporary Performance Engineer role for an engineer fluent in Jenkins and allergic to undocumented surprises. This is $65,000 - $98,000 for 4 years of Tailwind CSS, a temporary schedule, and a mid-level stake in where NexGen Systems heads next.

Key Responsibilities

• Pair with technology analysts so NexGen Systems's Rust models match real behavior
• Containerize applications and manage deployments with Rust and Tailwind CSS
• Resurrect flaky Attention Management tests until the Las Cruces, NM suite is trustworthy again
• Scale NexGen Systems's Terraform services from Las Cruces pilot to NM-wide rollout
• Turn NexGen Systems's Jest on-call noise into alerts that actually mean something
• Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture
• Walk technology stakeholders through Jest tradeoffs in language NexGen Systems execs grasp

What You'll Bring

• Sound instincts for reading a room you've never been in before
• Proven leadership experience guiding mid-level-level initiatives
• Working knowledge of Relationship Building alongside transferable Jest chops
• Demonstrated calm when a Las Cruces, NM client changes scope mid-stream
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, gently-demanding environment

NexGen Systems has made Las Cruces, NM synonymous with results-oriented, dependable technology work that outlasts the hype cycles. Politics die fast at NexGen Systems because we put the awkward stuff on the table early.

With $65,000 - $98,000 as the anchor, expect mentorship, a benefits package worth bragging about, and the latitude to work remote-first.

Updated today and reviewed daily, the technology role stays open.

We're looking for the person who reads technology job posts and thinks I could fix that.