Senior SDET - Performance Test Engineer (Cloud)

TL;DR

Senior SDET - Performance Test Engineer (Cloud): Implementing and evolving performance and reliability tests for cloud-native, microservices-based systems with an accent on tooling, frameworks, and infrastructure development. Focus on defining performance requirements, analyzing results using observability tools, and ensuring system scalability under load.

Location: United States (Hybrid)

Salary: $150,000 – $188,000/year

Company

hirify.global, a Palo Alto Networks company, is the global leader in identity security, trusted by organizations around the world to secure human and machine identities in the modern enterprise.

What you will do

• Implement and evolve performance and reliability tests for cloud-native, microservices-based systems.
• Build and maintain performance test components for load generation, result collection, and analysis.
• Execute performance tests in CI/CD pipelines and integrate them into regular development workflows.
• Use observability tools to analyze, visualize, and communicate performance results, including latency distributions, throughput, and error rates.
• Partner with development teams to help them understand performance test results and improve system behavior under load.
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions related to test infrastructure and performance.

Requirements

• 3-4 years of experience in test automation, SDET, performance engineering, or backend engineering roles, with a strong testing focus.
• Strong coding skills in Go, Java, or Python (Go preferred).
• Hands-on experience implementing performance tests for cloud-based applications.
• Practical understanding of performance testing types (baseline, load, stress, soak), load patterns, and core performance metrics (p50/p90/p99 latency, throughput, error rates).
• Experience working with observability platforms to analyze and visualize performance data, such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
• Experience building upon at least one public cloud platform (GCP preferred, but AWS, Azure also valuable).
• Solid understanding of Linux-based systems and networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S).

Nice to have

• Familiarity with performance testing tools such as k6, Locust, JMeter, or Gatling, or custom-built load generators.
• Experience working with containerized environments and distributed systems.
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure components and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible).
• Experience with SaaS platforms or security-sensitive systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within the Test Enablement group, collaborating closely with development teams, other SDETs, and the Production Engineering team.
• Opportunity to help define what needs to be tested and how it should be measured.
• Compensation package includes a wide range of medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits, plus equity and discretionary bonus.
• hirify.global is an Equal Opportunity Employer.