Performance Software Engineer

NinjaOne is a company that simplifies IT operations for over 40,000 customers across 140+ countries. They are seeking a Performance Software Engineer to lead performance testing initiatives and collaborate with engineering teams to enhance system responsiveness and reliability through data-driven optimizations.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, maintain, and support performance testing and data generation frameworks to surface actionable performance insights, using k6, JavaScript, Grafana, and InfluxDB
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, architectural decision records, and performance standards
• Define and evolve best practices for performance optimization, scalability, and measurement
• Partner with engineering teams to shape performance testing strategies and scalability approaches
• Collaborate with teams to analyze performance bottlenecks and drive solution identification and remediation

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience
• 6+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, including 2+ years in K6 or other load test frameworks, Javascript
• 2+ years of experience in Cloud Native Environments AWS will make you a standout candidate
• Strong background in design, performance and optimization tuning
• Deep expertise with distributed computing systems and container native environments
• Proficient in scripting for automation and observability such as Bash, Python, or similar scripting languages
• Excellent troubleshooting and communication skills across technical and non-technical teams
• Experience with relational databases, NinjaOne uses PostgreSQL so experience with this database will make you more qualified in our tech stack