Principal Performance Engineer (Automation)

Location: US

Base pay: $129,400–$177,850 annually

Company

hirify.global develops software solutions that improve efficiency, connectivity, and safety across the construction and design industry, serving more than 3 million users worldwide as part of Nemetschek Group.

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, including coding standards, design reviews, mentoring, and cross-team best practices.
• Architect frameworks, harnesses, environments, data generation, and distributed execution for realistic production-scale and multi-tenant load.
• Investigate bottlenecks, memory leaks, contention, and scalability limits, driving optimizations 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 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 experience with AWS performance, scaling, and monitoring services, including EC2, CloudWatch, ELB, Auto Scaling, and S3.
• Expert understanding of distributed systems, application workflows, data stores, caching, queuing, infrastructure, capacity planning, and system behavior under load.
• Strong programming skills are required for k6 test suites, custom scripts, load generators, data generation, and result-processing tools using JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or C#.
• Expertise with k6, CI/CD integration, and observability and profiling tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, and OpenSearch.

Nice to have

• Cloud platform certifications.
• Experience with APM and profiling tools, chaos or resilience testing, database and query performance tuning, and large-scale SaaS or desktop applications.

Culture & Benefits

• People-focused, entrepreneurial culture backed by the stable Nemetschek Group.
• Fully vested 401K from the first day and a competitive benefits package.
• Generous PTO, including sick, mental health, and volunteer days.
• Access to BetterUp Care and LinkedIn Learning.
• Professional development opportunities and up to $5,000 in annual education reimbursement after one year.
• Inclusive workplace focused on diversity, belonging, work-life balance, and individual lifestyle needs.