Senior Performance Engineer — Kubernetes, Rust & Cloud

Filetwigbay; Asheville (NC); On-site; USD 103,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Business Excellence Group in Asheville, NC is seeking a Senior Performance Engineer to help scale complex systems and survive real traffic. The role offers a salary range of $103,000 - $138,000 as a freelance engagement, with comprehensive benefits and leadership growth opportunities.

You will pair-program Rust edge cases with local engineers, implement secure auth flows on Kubernetes, and keep AWS dependencies patched before CVEs become incidents.

Qualifications

• 6+ years operating in a similar Performance Engineer position.
• NC work history, or strong reasons you'll thrive here anyway.
• Proven follow-through, measured in shipped things rather than good intentions.
• A solid foundation in Kubernetes, refined over 6+ years.
• Meticulous attention to detail across every deliverable.

Responsibilities

• Pair-program tricky Rust edge cases with engineers across Asheville, NC.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization flows using Kubernetes.
• Keep AWS dependencies patched before CVEs become incidents.
• Stress-test Mentoring systems until they bend, then harden where they cracked.
• Own the full lifecycle of technology systems from prototype to production.
• Cut Kubernetes cold-start times so Business Excellence Group functions wake before NC users notice.

Skills

6+ years experience

Mentoring

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Business Excellence Group in Asheville, NC is seeking a Senior Performance Engineer to help scale complex systems and survive real traffic. The role offers a salary range of $103,000 - $138,000 as a freelance engagement, with comprehensive benefits and leadership growth opportunities.

You will pair-program Rust edge cases with local engineers, implement secure auth flows on Kubernetes, and keep AWS dependencies patched before CVEs become incidents.