Performance Engineer: Scale Apps with Kubernetes & Rust

Energy Innovation Corp; Overland Park (KS); On-site; USD 66,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Dover Corporation is seeking a mid-level Performance Engineer in Overland Park, KS to push performance, reliability, and developer velocity. You’ll work with Kubernetes and Rust to build tooling, fix flaky tests, and translate ideas into production prototypes while mentoring teammates and keeping CI pipelines fast.

The role emphasizes hands-on performance optimization, scalable deployment patterns, and collaboration with a nerdy, writing‑driven culture.

Qualifications

• Ability to teach others effectively to raise team capability.
• Mentor teammates without taking over, enabling growth.
• Patience to coach and guide while maintaining ownership of work.

Responsibilities

• Enhance test automation frameworks to increase release confidence.
• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity.
• Resurrect flaky tests until the Overland Park, KS suite is trustworthy again.
• Translate napkin ideas into Innovation prototype outcomes.
• Optimize application performance, latency, and resource utilization at scale.
• Containerize applications and manage deployments with Kubernetes and Rust.
• Keep Git CI under ten minutes so Overland Park engineers stay in flow.

Skills

Teaching

Mentoring

Team player

Tools

Kubernetes

Rust

Job description

Dover Corporation is seeking a mid-level Performance Engineer in Overland Park, KS to push performance, reliability, and developer velocity. You’ll work with Kubernetes and Rust to build tooling, fix flaky tests, and translate ideas into production prototypes while mentoring teammates and keeping CI pipelines fast.

The role emphasizes hands-on performance optimization, scalable deployment patterns, and collaboration with a nerdy, writing‑driven culture.