Performance Engineer with SRE and cloud(AWS) Experience

At Staffworxs, we don't just connect talent we power transformation. Headquartered in Frisco, TX, with teams in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, we combine global reach with deep expertise. Our Digital & Data Analytics practice drives growth and innovation for some of the world's top brands, who continue to retain us as their trusted partner. If you're ready to make an impact, you're in the right place.

Job Details:

Title: Performance Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering
Location: Remote
Duration: Long term Contract

Job Summary:
Role Summary
As a Performance Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, you will:

• Define performance, scalability, and reliability metrics aligned to business services (e.g., customer journeys, checkout, promotions, event driven sales, and holiday readiness).
• Design, automate, and own the end to end performance testing strategy, including load, stress, spike, soak, and capacity testing.
• Build and maintain capacity metrics and dashboards to support scaling decisions and cost optimization.
• Create clear, actionable performance reports and summaries for technical and non technical stakeholders.
• Leverage observability and monitoring platforms (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch) to analyze system performance and identify bottlenecks.
• Apply SRE metrics and frameworks such as availability, latency, saturation, DORA metrics, and service quality indicators.
• Contribute to automation initiatives that reduce toil and enable proactive or self healing responses to performance issues.
• Partner with engineering teams to identify performance risks early in the design and development phases.
• Advocate for performance engineering best practices and help raise performance literacy across the organization.

THE QUALIFICATIONS
The Performance Engineer has:

• Hands on experience with performance/load testing concepts and methodologies.
• Solid understanding of Site Reliability Engineering fundamentals and principles.
• Strong knowledge of core performance metrics, including identifying/testing latency, throughput, error rates, resource utilization, and threading.
• Ability to write performance test plans, capacity models, and write detailed performance reports.
• Experience participating in incident response and driving or contributing to incident reviews.
• Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go, DOTNET).
• Familiarity with APIs, distributed systems, and cloud native architectures.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with Infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (Terraform) is a plus
• Experience with 'Load Testing In Production' is a plus
• Experience with one or more load testing tools (e.g., k6, JMeter, Gatling, Locust).
• Experience with Salesforce, Cloudflare, or edge/CDN performance considerations.

Staffworxs is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for all employees, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.