Manager, Performance and Test Engineering (Quality Engineering)

TL;DR

Manager, Performance and Test Engineering (AI): Leading and scaling performance test engineering, load testing, and test automation functions with an accent on developing long-term strategy and robust quality engineering practices. Focus on proactively detecting performance issues, strengthening observability tooling, and embedding automated quality practices into daily workflows.

Location: Remote (Utah, USA)

Company

hirify.global is building a people intelligence platform that transforms HR, driving innovation and sustainable growth to set 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 across hirify.global’s product ecosystem.
• Drive a unified quality engineering strategy that blends performance, reliability, observability, and automation.
• Own the performance engineering discipline, including system-level performance, scalability, latency, and capacity modeling.
• Lead development of scalable, maintainable test automation frameworks for UI, API, and integration testing.
• Partner with Engineering, Architecture, Product, and Platform Engineering teams to ensure platform reliability and performance.

Requirements

• 7+ years in Quality Engineering, Performance Engineering, SDET leadership, or related fields.
• 3+ years leading or managing high-performing engineering teams (SDET or performance-focused).
• Strong hands-on understanding of performance engineering: profiling, benchmarking, systems analysis, test design, and result interpretation.
• 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, Rollbar, 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).

Culture & Benefits

• Recognized great company culture by organizations like Inc. and Salt Lake Tribune.
• Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance.
• Generous leave policies including 4 weeks of vacation, 12 company holidays, and parental leave.
• 401k plans with up to 6% company match.
• Professional development opportunities and flexibility to thrive both in and outside the office.
• Commitment to full inclusion and reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities.