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Performance Quality Engineer

Remote - US (Remote)$120k–$165kmidAdded today

About this role

8am seeks a Performance Quality Engineer to establish performance observability, define critical metrics, and drive data-driven decisions for a microservices-based SaaS platform. You'll collaborate with Platform Engineering and product teams to identify performance risks early, conduct load testing, and integrate security considerations into performance test strategies.

What you'll do

  • Design and execute performance test suites for microservices-based applications on AWS using tools like k6, Gatling, or JMeter
  • Operate production-like environments for performance analysis, diagnosis, and regression testing
  • Analyze application and infrastructure logs to identify and root-cause performance degradations
  • Define, track, and report performance KPIs (response times, throughput, error rates) with trend analysis for leadership
  • Identify capacity risks using usage data and recommend proactive improvements before customer impact
  • Establish nonfunctional performance tests for CI/CD pipeline gates and work with teams to define pass/fail thresholds

What they're looking for

  • Performance testing tools (k6, Gatling, Locust, JMeter)
  • Observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
  • Log aggregation and analysis (ELK Stack, CloudWatch)
  • AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, ECS/EKS)
  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • Python or comparable scripting language
  • Statistical analysis and capacity forecasting
  • Microservices architecture knowledge
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8am builds backend services and integrations that power marketing operations and customer-facing websites, connecting platforms like Marketo and Salesforce to enable data automation and marketing effectiveness. The company is hiring Marketing Backend Developers and other technical roles to develop, maintain, and optimize the APIs and systems that support their demand generation platform.

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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through a complex performance degradation you diagnosed—what symptoms did you observe, what tools did you use, and how did you isolate the root cause?
  • Describe your experience designing performance test suites for microservices. How do you handle testing dependencies and asynchronous behavior?
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