Senior Sdet - Performance Test Engineer

TL;DR

Senior SDET - Performance Test Engineer: Elevates performance testing across the cloud-native platform with an accent on building tooling, frameworks, and infrastructure. Focus on implementing and evolving performance and reliability tests for microservices-based systems, collaborating with development teams and integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines.

Location: United States

Salary: $150,000/year - 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.
• Collaborate with Test Enablement and development teams to apply and build upon an existing performance testing direction.
• Build and maintain performance test components for load generation, result collection and analysis.
• Execute performance tests in CI/CD pipelines and support their integration into regular development workflows.
• Use observability tools to analyze, visualize, and communicate performance results.
• Partner with development teams to improve system behavior under load.

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.
• Experience working with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
• Experience building upon at least one public cloud platform (GCP preferred).
• Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI preferred).
• Solid understanding of Linux-based systems; working knowledge of Windows environments.
• Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S).

Nice to have

• Familiarity with performance testing tools such as k6, Locust, JMeter, or Gatling.
• Experience working with containerized environments and distributed systems.
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure components (load balancers, auto-scaling, storage services).
• Experience with SaaS platforms or security-sensitive systems.
• GCP experience or interest is a plus.

Culture & Benefits

• The compensation package includes a wide range of medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits.