Senior Performance Engineer - Remote

Job Description

Helping us rewrite portions of our platform to unlock scalability

Write and extend test-harness scripts in Javascript to load-test specific components in our platform

Use the load-tests to analyze current performance characteristics

Remove load from the primary database through caching, reader nodes, query optimizations and improved algorithms

Roll out changes in a controlled and reversible way

Help us re-architect existing components for horizontal scalability

Work with cloud-native infrastructure (we use AWS)

Working independently, but closely with a few others

If you have great leadership skills, this position could lead to a management position