Remote Senior Performance Engineer - CI/CD & AI

AgileEngine; Orange (CT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth without limits

Competitive compensation

Flexibility: 100% remote

Meaningful, modern projects

Collaborative culture

Well-being & support

Job summary

AgileEngine is seeking a Senior Performance Engineer to lead an enterprise-wide Performance Engineering function across web, mobile, kiosk, POS, loyalty, and payments ecosystems. You will design and execute load, stress, and endurance tests using JMeter, k6, or similar tools, and integrate automated validation into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.

You will partner with SRE/DevOps to define reliability targets, run controlled chaos experiments, and drive AI-assisted workflows for planning and triage.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in performance engineering or non-functional testing at enterprise scale.
• Hands-on with performance testing tools (JMeter, k6, LoadRunner, NeoLoad, OctoPerf).
• Experience with observability and cloud monitoring platforms (Dynatrace).
• Experience integrating automated validation into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps).
• Scripting in Java, JavaScript, or Python; cloud experience (AWS or Azure).
• Ability to review AI-generated outputs and work with AI-assisted workflows.
• Strong communication and stakeholder leadership; upper-intermediate English.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise Performance Engineering charter as a horizontal shared service.
• Design, script, execute, and report performance tests across high-volume flows.
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks across app, database, messaging, and infra layers.
• Embed automated performance validation into CI/CD pipelines with gating.
• Partner with SRE/DevOps to define reliability targets and run chaos experiments.
• Define readiness criteria and provide go/no-go release recommendations.
• Incorporate AI-assisted planning and results triage with guardrails.

Skills

4+ years experience

performance testing

CI/CD pipelines

observability tools

Java/JavaScript/Python

AWS or Azure

AI-assisted tooling

communication skills

English proficiency

Tools

JMeter

k6

LoadRunner

NeoLoad

OctoPerf

Dynatrace

Job description

AgileEngine is seeking a Senior Performance Engineer to lead an enterprise-wide Performance Engineering function across web, mobile, kiosk, POS, loyalty, and payments ecosystems. You will design and execute load, stress, and endurance tests using JMeter, k6, or similar tools, and integrate automated validation into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.

You will partner with SRE/DevOps to define reliability targets, run controlled chaos experiments, and drive AI-assisted workflows for planning and triage.