Senior Performance Engineer – Remote & AI-Driven

AgileEngine

Stratford (CT)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

20 hours ago

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Job summary

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

You will partner with SRE/DevOps teams to set reliability targets, perform chaos testing experiments, and leverage AI-assisted

Qualifications

4+ years in performance engineering at enterprise scale.
Experience with performance testing tools (JMeter, k6, LoadRunner, NeoLoad, OctoPerf).
Experience with enterprise observability and cloud monitoring platforms (Dynatrace).
Demonstrated experience integrating automated performance validation into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps).
Scripting in Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Hands-on engineering experience in cloud environments (AWS or Azure).

Responsibilities

Own the enterprise Performance Engineering charter as a horizontal shared service across systems (web, mobile, kiosk, POS, loyalty, payments).
Design, script, execute, and report performance tests (load, stress, endurance, scalability).
Identify bottlenecks using observability signals across app, DB, messaging, and infrastructure layers.
Embed automated performance validation into CI/CD pipelines with baseline gating.
Partner with SRE/DevOps to define reliability targets and run chaos-engineering experiments.
Define performance-readiness criteria and provide go/no-go release recommendations.
Integrate AI-assisted workflows into planning, design, and triage while maintaining guardrails.