Senior Lead Software Engineer - Performance and Resiliency Engineering

ARCHER; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Coverage

On-Site Health And Wellness Centers

Retirement Savings Plan

Backup Childcare

Tuition Reimbursement

Mental Health Support

Financial Coaching

Commission-Based Pay

Discretionary Incentive Compensation

Cash And/Or Forfeitable Equity

Job summary

ARCHER in Plano, TX seeks a senior performance and resiliency engineer to lead testing, capacity modeling, tuning, observability, incident analysis, and durable remediation for high-volume platforms. You will champion resilient service patterns, progressive delivery, rollback strategies, and optimized container workloads with autoscaling.

You will mentor cross-functional teams, drive production readiness, and collaborate across engineering and operations to improve release safety and system

Qualifications

• Senior experience in performance engineering for distributed systems or production reliability engineering.
• Strong AWS and Kubernetes/EKS experience; ECS experience beneficial.
• Experience with modern observability tools; cross-team leadership and mentoring; KEDA or Karpenter experience a major plus; Akamai preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead testing, capacity modeling, tuning, observability, incident analysis, and durable remediation for high-volume platforms.
• Improve release safety and production readiness by implementing resilient service patterns, progressive delivery, rollback, and optimized container workloads with autoscaling.

Skills

Performance Engineering

Resiliency Engineering

Distributed Systems

Site Reliability Engineering

Load And Stress Testing

Capacity Planning

Performance Tuning

Observability

Incident Management

Root-Cause Analysis

AWS

Kubernetes

Amazon EKS

Amazon ECS

Autoscaling

Technical Leadership

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Amazon EKS

Amazon ECS

KEDA

Karpenter

Job description

Lead performance and resiliency engineering for high-volume platforms, including testing, capacity modeling, tuning, observability, incident analysis, and durable remediation. Improve release safety and production readiness by implementing resilient service patterns, progressive delivery and rollback, and optimized container workloads and autoscaling.

Requirements

Requires senior experience in performance engineering for distributed systems or production reliability engineering, along with strong AWS and Kubernetes/EKS experience; ECS experience is beneficial. Candidates should know modern observability tools and demonstrate cross-team leadership and mentoring, while KEDA or Karpenter experience is a major plus and Akamai experience is strongly preferred.

Key Skills

Performance Engineering, Resiliency Engineering, Distributed Systems, Site Reliability Engineering, Load And Stress Testing, Capacity Planning, Performance Tuning, Observability, Incident Management, Root-Cause Analysis, AWS, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, Autoscaling, Technical Leadership

Benefits

Health Care Coverage, On-Site Health And Wellness Centers, Retirement Savings Plan, Backup Childcare, Tuition Reimbursement, Mental Health Support, Financial Coaching, Commission-Based Pay, Discretionary Incentive Compensation, Cash And/Or Forfeitable Equity