Senior Performance Engineer

Location: Hybrid in Denver, Colorado, United States, with 3 days on-site per week

Base pay: $130,000–$160,000 annually, plus stock options and variable bonuses

Company

hirify.global provides software delivery, governance, and control-plane capabilities that help enterprises build, run, and govern software factories.

What you will do

• Own the performance engineering strategy for products and distributed services.
• Build automated load, stress, spike, soak, scalability, and resilience tests as version-controlled code.
• Integrate performance tests, thresholds, and regression detection into CI/CD workflows.
• Define performance baselines, service-level objectives, release criteria, capacity models, and realistic workloads with engineering and SRE teams.
• Diagnose bottlenecks using observability data, profiling, tracing, logs, and metrics.
• Develop dashboards, reporting, documentation, tooling, and engineering standards while coaching engineers on performance practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, performance engineering, site reliability engineering, or a related discipline.
• Strong software development skills in Java, Go, Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience with k6, Gatling, JMeter, Locust, or equivalent performance and load-testing tools.
• Experience with CI/CD automation, distributed systems, APIs, microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience analyzing latency, throughput, concurrency, error rates, resource saturation, capacity limits, and application, database, network, and infrastructure bottlenecks.

Nice to have

• Experience with enterprise DevOps, software delivery, developer platforms, or governance products.
• Experience testing large-scale Kubernetes or multi-tenant SaaS environments.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or New Relic.
• Experience with chaos engineering, resilience testing, capacity planning, or cost-performance optimization.

Culture & Benefits

• Unlimited flexible PTO, paid U.S. holidays, and two paid volunteer days.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage from the start date, with HSA contributions available.
• 401(k) company match with pre-tax and Roth options.
• Company-funded life, disability, and employee assistance benefits, plus Headspace access.
• Monthly home-office stipend and a collaborative hybrid office environment in Denver.
• Bonus plan, stock options, and a global collaborative team guided by direct feedback and high quality standards.