[Hiring] Staff Performance Engineer @Ironcladhq
Apr 11, 2025 - Ironcladhq is hiring a remote Staff Performance Engineer. đź’¸ Salary: $170,000 - $210,000. đź“ŤLocation: USA.
Role Description
As a Performance Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring Ironclad’s platform remains fast, scalable, and reliable as we continue to grow at an incredible pace. With our fast-paced release cycle and an influx of large-scale enterprise customers, our goal is to maintain development velocity while proactively identifying and eliminating performance bottlenecks. You’ll have the opportunity to shape performance strategy from the ground up, build and maintain performance frameworks, analyze system behavior under load, and work cross-functionally to integrate performance-first principles throughout the product development lifecycle.
We are seeking a Senior/Staff Performance Engineer to enhance performance, scalability, and reliability, collaborating with development teams to eliminate bottlenecks, execute performance tests, and drive optimizations. This growing team offers high impact, visibility, and autonomy as we tackle complex scalability challenges and optimize performance amid rapid expansion. With big technical problems ahead, your work will directly shape how Ironclad scales. If you thrive in a high-impact, performance-driven culture and value collaboration, let’s talk!
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and execute performance tests using various tools and techniques to identify bottlenecks and performance issues.
- Own end-to-end performance testing, including strategy, requirements gathering, test planning, scripting, execution, monitoring, and results analysis.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to diagnose and resolve performance issues across application code, infrastructure, and database layers.
- Monitor and analyze performance metrics using tools like Datadog or New Relic, and provide optimization recommendations.
- Develop and maintain performance testing frameworks, and coverage scripts, ensuring scalability and automation.
- Conduct in-depth performance analysis and tuning, participate in code reviews, and offer deep performance insights.
- Work with stakeholders to understand and establish performance requirements, refine performance benchmarks, KPIs, and SLAs.
- Stay up to date with performance best practices and emerging technologies to continuously improve system reliability.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in performance engineering with a strong focus on optimization, scalability, and system reliability.
- Hands-on expertise in performance testing methodologies, including load, stress, chaos, and capacity testing.
- Proficiency in performance testing tools such as JMeter, K6, Gatling, Locust, or other industry-standard frameworks.
- Deep experience in performance tuning and optimization across databases, applications, and infrastructure.
- Strong system design principles and proficiency in programming/scripting with Java, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
- Hands-on experience with performance monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to quickly identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
- Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.
- Self-driven and adaptable, able to work independently and collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, high-impact environment.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401k
- Wellness reimbursement
- Take what you need vacation policy
- Generous parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers
Base Salary Range: $170,000 - $210,000
The base salary range represents the minimum and maximum of the salary range for this position based at our San Francisco headquarters. The actual base salary offered for this position will depend on numerous factors, including individual proficiency, anticipated performance, and the location of the selected candidate. Our base salary is just one component of Ironclad’s competitive total rewards package, which also includes equity awards (a new hire grant, along with opportunities for additional awards throughout your tenure), competitive health and wellness benefits, and a commitment to career growth and development.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Salary
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$170,000 - $210,000
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Remote
Location
USA
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Apr 11, 2025
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| đź“Ť | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: USA |
| ‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. |
