Performance Engineer (6391)

itD is seeking a Performance Engineer to optimize the speed, scalability, stability, and reliability of enterprise digital platforms and cloud-native applications. This role will focus on designing and executing performance tests, automating performance validation, monitoring system health, and identifying opportunities to improve application performance and resilience. The ideal candidate will bring hands-on experience in performance engineering, distributed systems, cloud technologies, and observability tools, with a proven track record of supporting high-traffic applications and resolving complex performance bottlenecks.

Location: Nearshore - Remote

We provide comprehensive medical benefits, a 401k plan, paid holidays, and more. Please note that we are only considering direct W2 candidates at this time, as we are unable to offer sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Execute performance engineering activities across digital platforms, e-commerce applications, microservices, and APIs to ensure high availability, scalability, and reliability.
• Design, develop, script, and execute performance tests, including load, stress, spike, and soak testing, to evaluate system behavior against established benchmarks and KPIs.
• Perform capacity planning, bottleneck analysis, and performance assessments to identify system limitations and recommend optimization opportunities.
• Support Chaos Engineering initiatives by using tools such as Gremlin, Chaos Mesh, or similar platforms to simulate failure scenarios and validate system resilience and recovery capabilities.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting dashboards using observability tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, or equivalent platforms.
• Integrate automated performance testing, regression checks, and performance gates into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous performance validation.
• Participate in root-cause analysis of performance incidents, document test plans and findings, recommend corrective actions, and communicate results to Development, SRE, DevOps, Cloud, Architecture, and Product teams.

Internal Responsibilities

• Attend regular internal practice community meetings.
• Collaborate with your itD practice team on industry thought leadership.
• Complete client case studies and learning material (blogs, media material).
• Build out material to contribute to the Digital Transformation practice.
• Attend internal itD networking events (in person and virtual).
• Work with leadership on career fast-track opportunities.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in performance engineering, scalability testing, and performance optimization of large-scale, high-traffic systems.
• 4+ years of experience supporting the stability, reliability, and performance of mission-critical software applications in production environments.
• 4+ years of experience with monitoring, observability, and performance management tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics, or equivalent enterprise platforms.
• Proficiency with performance testing tools such as JMeter, BlazeMeter, LoadRunner, or Gatling.
• Experience with Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, or New Relic.
• Strong programming and scripting skills using Java, Python, and/or Groovy.
• Experience troubleshooting distributed systems through log analysis, anomaly detection, root-cause analysis, and performance bottleneck identification.
• Experience working with microservices, APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Ability to collaborate with Development, DevOps, SRE, Cloud, and Architecture teams to support performance and reliability initiatives.

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience required.

Company Description About itD: We are part of a new generation of consulting and software development company that blends diversity, innovation, and integrity with real business results. Our structure rejects any strong hierarchy, empowering us to deliver excellent results. We are a woman- and minority-led firm. Every day, we challenge ourselves to be considerate, fair and to re-think what great outcomes mean for our customers. This permeates down to how we approach every interaction, on every project, for every client.

You’ll thrive here if you are a dynamic self-starter, a difference-maker or someone who wants to deliver great results, without constraints.

The itD Digital Experience: Joining us means you’ll be part of our global community, you have a say about your own career journey, and you’ll get a chance to give back to causes that matter. You will experience working with Fortune 500 companies and high-performance teams across numerous industries. itD offers our employees excellent benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life insurance, paid holidays, 401K + matching, networking & career learning and development programs. We are growing and we want to see you grow! Visit https://itdtech.com/careers to learn more about what working at itD can mean for you.

Additional Info Dynamic environment in a culture of respect, empowerment and recognition for a job well done, apply today!

• 2+ years of experience in retail, e-commerce, or another high-scale digital environment.
• Experience with Chaos Engineering tools such as Gremlin and Chaos Mesh.
• Experience integrating automated performance testing and performance gates into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience supporting capacity planning and resilience testing for large-scale distributed applications.
• Familiarity with post-incident performance analysis and implementing preventive system improvements.