Manager, Performance and Test Engineering (Quality Engineering)

TL;DR

Manager, Performance and Test Engineering (Quality Engineering): Leading and developing a high-performing team of Performance Engineers and SDETs to drive a unified quality engineering strategy across hirify.global's product ecosystem with an accent on performance validation, observability-driven testing, and scalable automation frameworks. Focus on owning the performance engineering discipline, evolving testing practices into CI/CD pipelines, and partnering cross-functionally to ensure platform reliability and observability.

Location: Remote in Utah, USA. Employment is contingent on passing both a background and credit check.

Company

hirify.global is building a people intelligence platform that transforms HR and sets people free to do great work!

What you will do

• Build and lead a high-performing team of Performance Engineers and SDETs.
• Define the vision and roadmap for performance engineering, load testing, and automated testing.
• Own the performance engineering discipline, including system-level performance, scalability, and latency.
• Lead development of scalable, maintainable test automation frameworks for UI, API, and integration testing.
• Partner with Engineering and Product Management to define performance requirements and integrate platforms.
• Coordinate with SRE/Platform teams on capacity planning and infrastructure improvements.

Requirements

• 7+ years in Quality Engineering, Performance Engineering, SDET leadership, or related fields.
• 3+ years leading or managing high-performing engineering teams.
• Strong hands-on understanding of performance engineering, including profiling, benchmarking, and systems analysis.
• Deep experience with modern test automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Selenium, API automation).
• Solid understanding of observability practices (metrics, logs, traces) and tools (e.g., Datadog, Grafana).
• Experience building automated quality signals into CI/CD pipelines.

Nice to have

• Experience with distributed systems and cloud-native architectures (AWS preferred).
• Experience driving culture change toward “shift-left” quality engineering.
• Exposure to reliability practices (SLOs, error budgets, resilience testing).
• Strong communication and leadership skills.

Culture & Benefits

• A great company culture recognized by multiple organizations.
• Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance.
• Generous leave policies including 4 weeks of vacation, 12 company holidays, parental leave, and volunteer time off.
• 401k plans with up to 6% company match.
• $2000 Paid-Paid Vacation bonus.
• EAP through Headspace.