Performance Engineer — Remote-Friendly, Mentored Growth

LaunchPad Corp; Sandy (UT); Hybrid; USD 82,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

LaunchPad Corp is seeking a mid-level Performance Engineer to own reliability for a high-volume data platform in Sandy, UT. The role emphasizes hands-on ownership, mentorship, and gradual growth within a remote-friendly team.

You will maintain CI/CD infrastructure, profile and refactor legacy code, and collaborate across cross-functional teams to reduce debt and accelerate delivery. The position offers a supportive culture and flexible work arrangement.

Qualifications

• Mid-level performance engineer with hands-on ownership and growth mindset.
• Experience supporting data-intensive platforms with a bias for reliability.
• Strong collaboration across product and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve CI/CD infrastructure across UT engineering teams.
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time.
• Catch race conditions during Sandy peak traffic with cross-functional teams.
• Hand off Terraform runbooks to on-call engineers.
• Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the stack.
• Write clean, well-tested code that scales with user growth.
• Refine and maintain microservices supporting customers in Sandy, UT.

Skills

Go language

Code profiling

Team collaboration

Documentation

Mentorship

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

LaunchPad Corp is seeking a mid-level Performance Engineer to own reliability for a high-volume data platform in Sandy, UT. The role emphasizes hands-on ownership, mentorship, and gradual growth within a remote-friendly team.

You will maintain CI/CD infrastructure, profile and refactor legacy code, and collaborate across cross-functional teams to reduce debt and accelerate delivery. The position offers a supportive culture and flexible work arrangement.