Performance Engineer

Job Description
The Performance Engineer works within our application development space, designing, executing, and analyzing performance tests for Stride applications to enable our engineering teams to deliver high-quality products to market rapidly. The Performance Engineer is committed to best practices and providing meaningful and actionable insights for tuning applications with a solid understanding of the Cloud architecture for all Stride products.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• Partner with technical product management, engineering managers, and other key business stakeholders to define key quality and performance metrics for their products and ensure that we meet our targets for those metrics with every release;
• Lead a centralized core team that collaborates closely with development and QA engineers embedded in PD Scrum teams, providing thought leadership, expertise, and tool / infrastructure support in the areas of performance engineering, CI/CD, and automation of K12 best practices;
• Drive continuous improvement in our performance testing practices to increase automation, decrease the amount of manual effort, and reduce or eliminate duplicate or unnecessary work;

• Collaborate with Scrum teams to define and document quantifiable performance and scalability requirements for their applications;
• Develop and execute appropriate tests to verify that applications are meeting their documented requirements;
• Analyze results of tests and provide meaningful and actionable insights including root cause analysis for performance defects and provide evidence for performance degradation;
• Establish and maintain dashboards to summarize and report key performance metrics for applications;
• Review performance dashboards regularly with both Scrum teams and leadership to drive continuous and measurable improvement in our applications and development process;
• Collaborate with Scrum teams to integrate performance engineering more effectively into their development practices and CI/CD pipelines;
• Operate performance testing environment in a fiscally responsible manner;
• Analyze application architecture to identify potential performance gaps.

Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.

MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or a related field AND
• Five (5) years' proven experience in software engineering or quality assurance roles OR
• Equivalent combination of education and experience

Certificates and Licenses: None required.

OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• One (1) year experience in performance engineering
• Strong engineering delivery and execution track record, with proven experience around the complete lifecycle of product development
• Strong background in software engineering, especially in performance, devops/automation, and CI/CD
• Experience with JMeter, Neoload, and other performance testing tools
• Experience with scripting, execution, analysis of Performance tests
• Experience with infrastructure performance analysis on AWS
• Ability to build trusting, meaningful relationships with peers, stakeholders, and partners.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including influencing technical decisions and direction, conflict management, negotiation, and presentations
• Full commitment to customer satisfaction
• Identify and drive innovation in products, technologies, processes, and solutions
• Has high standards, is results-oriented, proactive and committed to delivering high-quality software on time and within budget
• Ability and desire to thrive in a proactive, high-pressure environment
• Ability to clearly write technical specifications and strong estimating and planning skills
• Experience working with offshore and distributed teams
• Ability to troubleshoot environment and application issues
• Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, etc.); Web proficiency.
• Ability to travel 5% of the time
• Ability to clear required background check

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Familiarity with Agile / Scrum methodologies

Compensation & Benefits: Stride, Inc. considers a person's education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position's work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee's salary level. Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position's level and expected contribution, and the employee's benefits elections. Offers will typically be in the bottom half of the range.

• We anticipate the salary range to be $66,379.50- $131,500.00. An individual's compensation can vary based on several factors which include, but are not limited to, geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions. Eligible employees may receive a bonus. Stride offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This is a remote position

The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is "at-will" as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the "at-will" nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.

Job Type
Regular

The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is "at-will" as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the "at-will" nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.

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Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

Stride, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants receive consideration for employment based on merit without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local law. Stride, Inc. complies with all legally required affirmative action obligations. Applicants will not be discriminated against because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.