Associate Director Engineering - Enterprise Performance Engineering

Location: Remote; occasional travel to hirify.global offices for training or meetings may be required. The role is associated with New York, NY and requires a dedicated home workspace with internet of at least 25 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload to protect member PHI/HIPAA information.

Salary: $142,300–$195,700 per year, plus eligibility for a bonus incentive plan.

Company

hirify.global is a U.S. healthcare and insurance company delivering technology and healthcare services for Medicare, Medicaid, families, individuals, military personnel, and communities.

What you will do

• Lead the enterprise performance engineering strategy, roadmap, operating model, standards, governance, and centralized team.
• Direct performance testing services for customer-facing, internal, digital, cloud-native, AI-enabled, and mission-critical applications.
• Define workload models and oversee load, stress, volume, spike, endurance, scalability, capacity, reliability, and disaster recovery performance validation.
• Lead performance analysis, root cause investigation, application tuning, capacity planning, architecture reviews, and optimization across applications, APIs, databases, infrastructure, and cloud services.
• Establish performance engineering practices for Generative AI, LLM applications, intelligent agents, and multi-agent workflows.
• Lead automation, cloud performance engineering, CI/CD integration, reliability practices, and the development of performance engineers, architects, and technical specialists.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, performance engineering, quality engineering, or related disciplines, including 3+ years managing engineering or performance engineering teams.
• Proven experience leading performance testing engagements for large-scale enterprise applications.
• Hands-on experience with LoadRunner Enterprise, BlazeMeter, Apache JMeter, and Performance Center.
• Strong expertise in performance analysis, capacity planning, workload modeling, and application tuning.
• Experience optimizing web applications, APIs, microservices, distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and databases.
• Strong understanding of Java, REST APIs, cloud-native applications, and enterprise architecture patterns.
• Hands-on experience with Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace, or New Relic.
• Ability to lead through influence, partner across organizations, and remain hands-on in technical problem solving.

Nice to have

• Experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or other highly regulated industries.
• Experience testing Generative AI applications, AI platforms, intelligent agents, and LLM-based solutions.
• Experience with AWS and Azure cloud architectures.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Terraform, and Site Reliability Engineering practices.
• Familiarity with chaos engineering, resilience testing, and fault injection techniques.
• Experience establishing or maturing enterprise-wide performance engineering practices or centers of excellence.
• Experience supporting digital transformation and cloud modernization initiatives.
• Relevant certifications in cloud, performance engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with occasional office travel for training or meetings.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits, including support for dependents.
• 401(k), paid time off, company and personal holidays, and paid parental and caregiver leave.
• Short- and long-term disability, life insurance, and additional wellness and healthcare benefits.
• 40 scheduled hours per week and a dedicated, interruption-free home workspace requirement.