Remote-First Performance Engineer: Impactful, Flexible Role

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

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.