Performance Engineer — Ownership in Scalable Systems

Business Partners Inc; Fairfield (CA); On-site; USD 96,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

Business Partners Inc. in Fairfield, CA is seeking a Performance Engineer who will own optimization across Terraform, GraphQL, and GitHub Actions to reduce technical debt without a rewrite.

This full-time role rewards ownership, growth, and a strong sense of pace, with a salary range of $96,000 to $151,000 and a supportive benefits setup.

You will tackle latency, scaling, and automation while safeguarding backward compatibility and ensuring smooth rollouts at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years navigating the politics that technology work attracts.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Curiosity that outpaces your current job description.
• Comfort being accountable for an unfussy outcome in a full-time role.
• Comfort with a Business Partners Inc pace that rarely sits still.

Responsibilities

• Optimize application performance, latency, and resource utilization at scale
• Keep GitHub Actions schemas backward-compatible so Business Partners Inc never forces a breaking upgrade
• Tune Git caching so Business Partners Inc survives the Fairfield launch spike on the same hardware
• Push GraphQL changes safely behind flags so Fairfield, CA rollbacks take seconds
• Automate the manual GraphQL chores that quietly drain Fairfield, CA engineering hours
• Stress-test GitHub Actions systems until they bend, then harden where they cracked

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Curiosity

Accountability

Adaptability to fast pace

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GraphQL

Job description

Business Partners Inc. in Fairfield, CA is seeking a Performance Engineer who will own optimization across Terraform, GraphQL, and GitHub Actions to reduce technical debt without a rewrite.

This full-time role rewards ownership, growth, and a strong sense of pace, with a salary range of $96,000 to $151,000 and a supportive benefits setup.

You will tackle latency, scaling, and automation while safeguarding backward compatibility and ensuring smooth rollouts at scale.