Performance Engineering Lead for Enterprise SaaS

Speria; Dunwoody (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Speria MTech, a global SaaS provider in Dunwoody, GA, seeks a hands-on Performance Team Lead to build, scale, and govern performance engineering across our enterprise applications. You will define strategy, lead workload modeling, CI/CD integration, and mentor a growing team.

You'll partner with Engineering, Architecture, DevOps, Product, and QA leadership to ensure performance risks are identified early and addressed before release, while leveraging AI insights.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in Performance Testing or Performance Engineering.
• Proven experience leading performance initiatives for complex enterprise applications.
• Hands-on experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter and k6.
• Strong experience designing workload models and executing load, stress, endurance, and scalability testing.
• Experience integrating testing into CI/CD environments and collaborating with DevOps teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to determine root causes across applications, databases, and infrastructure.
• Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical teams.
• Familiarity with cloud-based and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the organization's performance engineering strategy.
• Establish standards, governance, and best practices for performance testing and reporting.
• Design and oversee load, stress, endurance, scalability, and performance testing initiatives.
• Create realistic workload models, usage patterns, and performance acceptance criteria.
• Evaluate, recommend, and implement performance testing tools and technologies.
• Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and release readiness processes.
• Analyze test results and collaborate with Engineering and Architecture teams to identify root causes and improvement opportunities.
• Translate performance findings into actionable recommendations and risk assessments.
• Leverage AI-assisted insights to improve performance engineering efficiency and scalability.
• Hire, mentor, and develop Performance Engineers as the team expands.
• Coordinate performance engineering efforts across U.S. and Mexico-based teams.

Skills

Performance Testing

Performance Engineering

Load testing

CI/CD integration

Mentoring engineers

Team leadership

JMeter

k6

Cloud-based systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

JMeter

k6

Job description

Speria MTech, a global SaaS provider in Dunwoody, GA, seeks a hands-on Performance Team Lead to build, scale, and govern performance engineering across our enterprise applications. You will define strategy, lead workload modeling, CI/CD integration, and mentor a growing team.

You'll partner with Engineering, Architecture, DevOps, Product, and QA leadership to ensure performance risks are identified early and addressed before release, while leveraging AI insights.