Principal Performance Automation Engineer

Location: United States

Base pay: $129,400–$161,800 per year

Company

hirify.global develops software for the architecture, engineering, and construction industry, including connected cloud collaboration solutions used by more than 3 million people worldwide.

What you will do

• Define the long-term performance testing strategy, reference architecture, roadmap, benchmarks, and service-level objectives.
• Lead the technical direction of performance engineering, establish coding and testing standards, review designs and code, and mentor engineers.
• Architect load-testing frameworks, harnesses, environments, data generation, distributed execution, and multi-tenant scenarios.
• Investigate bottlenecks, memory leaks, contention, and scalability limits, driving optimization with development and DevOps teams.
• Integrate automated performance validation, regression gates, trend tracking, dashboards, and reporting into CI/CD pipelines.
• Partner with engineering, DevOps, product, and support leadership on performance goals, capacity planning, architecture, and release decisions.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in performance or automation engineering, software development, or DevOps, including 5+ years in load and performance engineering for large-scale or distributed systems.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• Deep hands-on AWS experience, including EC2, CloudWatch, ELB, Auto Scaling, and S3, with cost-aware test environment design.
• Expert knowledge of distributed systems, application workflows, data stores, caching, queuing, infrastructure, capacity planning, and system modeling.
• Strong programming skills in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or C# for k6 test suites, load generators, data tooling, and result processing.
• Expert proficiency with k6 and advanced experience with CI/CD, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, OpenSearch, Pandas, profiling, and observability tools.

Nice to have

• Cloud platform certifications such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Experience with chaos or resilience testing, database and query performance tuning, and large-scale SaaS or desktop applications.

Culture & Benefits

• People-focused and entrepreneurial culture backed by the Nemetschek Group.
• Competitive compensation and benefits, including fully vested 401K from the start date.
• Generous PTO, including sick, mental health, and volunteer days.
• Free and unlimited access to BetterUp Care and LinkedIn Learning.
• Professional development support, including up to $5,000 in annual education reimbursement after one year.
• Work-life balance and an inclusive environment focused on diversity, belonging, and individual lifestyle needs.