Staff Engineer - Austin, TX

Overview

Hybrid
$150,000 - $250,000
Full Time
No Travel Required

Skills

Apache JMeter
Linux
Java
Grafana
SaaS
Performance Testing
aws
Golang
Fedramp
GovCloud
Amazon Web Services

Job Details

Staff Engineer

Austin, TX

Direct Hire

We re seeking a Staff Engineer to ensure the performance, scalability, and reliability of a cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS platform. This is a hands-on role working with backend services in Java and Go, AWS cloud infrastructure, and modern performance testing and observability tools.

Responsibilities

  • Design and configure performance labs to emulate customer workloads.

  • Develop load test scripts and frameworks for software and infrastructure testing.

  • Create and execute test plans, analyze results, and identify bottlenecks.

  • Provide tuning and optimization recommendations for services and cloud environments.

  • Build and maintain monitoring, tracing, and observability solutions.

  • Communicate performance findings and scalability recommendations to engineering teams.

  • Mentor engineers and promote performance best practices across the organization.

Requirements

  • FedRAMP compliance experience (must-have).

  • Proven background in performance testing and profiling.

  • Hands-on development in Java and Go. (must-have)

  • Advanced experience with AWS cloud-native services. (must-have)

  • Knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases and event-driven systems (Kafka, Redis). (plus)

  • Familiarity with performance testing tools such as Grafana K6, JMeter, Prometheus. (plus)

  • Linux experience a plus.

  • SaaS background strongly preferred. (plus)

  • Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

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