Staff Performance Quality Engineer

Domino Data Lab; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellness plans

Flexible paid time off

Annual education reimbursement

Parental leave

Job summary

Domino Data Lab is seeking an Automation Engineer to own Tempest, Domino’s scale testing platform tools. You will modernize testing infrastructure and establish cloud-based testing practices to support growth and product complexity.

You will drive data-driven validation, reduce manual diagnostics, and collaborate with platform teams to enable multi-cloud scale testing in a large, distributed system environment.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Python and comfort working in a large modular codebase spanning orchestration, infra automation, and systems integration.
• Familiarity with performance and load testing methodologies (Locust, k6, or similar).
• Experience with observability stacks and writing queries to diagnose performance issues.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical owner of Tempest, Domino's scale testing platform tools, ensuring reliability and extensibility.
• Evolve and modernize scale testing infrastructure to support growth and product complexity.
• Deliver data-driven sizing recommendations for customer-facing documentation from empirical testing.
• Improve validation and reporting in scale testing through automated criteria and reduced manual diagnostics.
• Establish scale testing on cloud platforms with appropriate sizing and configuration guidance.

Skills

Python

Load testing

Observability

Distributed systems

SRE / platform engineering

Tools

Locust

k6

Prometheus

Grafana

New Relic

Kubernetes

Job description

• The Automation Team at Domino acts as a force multiplier for engineering, building the tools and systems that enable teams to ship code confidently and consistently
• Focused on iteration and continuous improvement, the team looks for targeted enhancements that can create outsized impact across the organization
• They are responsible for developing and maintaining the frameworks and tooling that empower developers and Quality Engineers to create meaningful, actionable end-to-end tests for their features
• By leveraging Domino's own platform to build powerful visualizations and streamline workflows, the team helps accelerate issue identification and resolution, ultimately improving product quality and delivery speed
• In your first year, you will:
• Serve as the technical owner of Tempest, Domino's scale testing platform tools, ensuring they remain reliable, extensible, and aligned with evolving product needs
• Evolve and modernize scale testing infrastructure to support continued growth and increasing product complexity
• Deliver accurate, data-driven sizing recommendations for customer-facing documentation based on rigorous empirical testing
• Dramatically improve validation and reporting within scale testing by introducing repeatable, automated validation criteria that reduce manual diagnostics while increasing confidence in results
• Establish and operationalize scale testing on cloud platforms, ensuring appropriate sizing and configuration guidance for this increasingly divergent product line
• Partner with platform teams to enable effective scale testing across additional cloud providers, helping position Domino for future multi-cloud success
• Increase the efficiency and leverage of a small team by building automation that scales operationally as the product and customer base grow

Benefits

• Health & wellness: Premium medical, dental, and vision insurance plans, including a free option for you and your family
• Commuter benefits: What's your transportation of choice? We support your daily commute, whether Uber, Lyft, bus, or train
• Love for parents: New parents receive up to eight weeks of fully paid-parental leave. P.S. Got baby pics? Share them in our Slack channel dedicated to kids
• Flexible paid time off: We value your right to disconnect. Take the time you need to recharge, spend time with family, and explore the world
• Annual education reimbursement: Pursue the professional growth that will help you excel in your role with educational opportunities that work for your needs, and at your speed
• Own your outcome: Feel supported to get your work done how and when you need to, regardless of your location

• Strong proficiency in Python and comfort working in a large, modular codebase that spans orchestration, infrastructure automation, and systems integration
• Familiarity with performance and load testing methodologies (e.g., Locust, k6, or similar) as part of a broader infrastructure or reliability practice
• Demonstrated ability to go beyond detection to resolution: profiling services, identifying resource bottlenecks, and working with engineering teams to ship durable fixes
• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, or similar) - writing queries, building dashboards, and using metrics to diagnose performance and reliability issues at the systems level
• Background in SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure with hands-on experience operating and troubleshooting distributed systems in production Kubernetes environments
• Clear ownership mindset - self-directed, accountable, and able to communicate priorities and status effectively in a remote, async environment