Performance Engineer

We are seeking a Performance Engineer to join our Core department. In this pivotal role, you will lead performance engineering efforts across Global-e, working closely with the entire R&D department.

Your mission is establishing and implementing a comprehensive non-functional testing strategy to ensure system performance, stability, and availability.

You will identify potential bottlenecks, define testing standards, and collaborate with development teams to optimize our platform's performance.

Responsibilities:

• Establish a holistic non-functional testing strategy for system performance, stability, and availability.
• Define test code standards, tools, monitoring, and troubleshooting procedures.
• Acquire deep knowledge of system architecture to identify and mitigate potential performance bottlenecks and risks.
• Validate the performance of new product capabilities alongside product design and development.
• Document performance requirements and metrics, working with development teams to implement them.
• Generate performance reports and metrics, providing insights and recommendations for improvements.
• Lead performance testing efforts, including load, stress, and scalability testing.
• Implement and utilize application monitoring and observability tools to detect and resolve performance issues proactively.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure performance considerations are integrated throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Mentor and guide team members, promoting best practices in performance engineering.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of proven experience in load and performance software testing.
• Proven experience with API performance testing tools and frameworks.
• Experience with application monitoring and observability tools.
• Strong analytical, diagnostic, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently and lead projects.
• Experience with K6 load testing tool
• Experience with Grafana for monitoring, visualization, and analysis
• Knowledge of SQL and database performance optimization.
• Solid scripting and programming skills, preferably in Python, JS, Java, or C#.
• Ability to work in a dynamic, multi-tasking environment.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills; a team player.