Remote Performance Engineer: Drive Speed & Scale

Spectraforce Technologies, Inc.; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectraforce Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Performance Engineer to improve speed, scalability, reliability, and user experience across digital platforms. The role combines performance testing, frontend auditing, observability, and hands-on engineering to identify bottlenecks and drive measurable improvements.

You will collaborate with application, UX, API, platform, and DevOps teams to embed performance into delivery workflows from local development through production monitoring.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in performance engineering, performance testing, or software engineering.
• Strong experience designing, running, and analyzing load and performance tests with JMeter, LoadRunner, or comparable tools.
• Experience with frontend performance testing and browser diagnostics, including Chrome DevTools and network analysis.
• Hands-on experience building performance dashboards, monitoring systems, and alerting.
• Working knowledge of web application architecture, HTTP, APIs, browsers, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute performance testing for web applications, APIs, and critical user journeys using tools such as JMeter and LoadRunner.
• Design workload models and test scenarios for baseline, load, stress, endurance, and capacity testing.
• Analyze results, traces, logs, and network waterfalls to identify bottlenecks across frontend, backend, and infra.
• Conduct frontend performance audits using Lighthouse, WebPageTest, Chrome DevTools, and real-user monitoring platforms.
• Evaluate Core Web Vitals and related metrics and recommend actionable improvements.
• Build and maintain performance dashboards, service-level indicators, and actionable alerts.

Skills

Performance testing

Frontend performance

Observability

CI/CD

Scripting/Programming

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

JMeter

LoadRunner

Lighthouse

WebPageTest

Chrome DevTools

Grafana/Datadog/New Relic

Job description

Spectraforce Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Performance Engineer to improve speed, scalability, reliability, and user experience across digital platforms. The role combines performance testing, frontend auditing, observability, and hands-on engineering to identify bottlenecks and drive measurable improvements.

You will collaborate with application, UX, API, platform, and DevOps teams to embed performance into delivery workflows from local development through production monitoring.