Performance Engineer Remote

Job Title: Performance Engineer - Remote

Duration (Contract): 12 Months

Client Location: Austin, TX

Location Preference: Remote

Job Description:
As a Performance Engineer, you will be responsible for improving the speed, scalability, reliability, and overall user experience of enterprise digital platforms. This role combines performance testing, frontend optimization, observability, and hands-on engineering to identify performance bottlenecks and implement measurable improvements across applications, APIs, and infrastructure. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate performance best practices into the software development lifecycle and ensure highly responsive, scalable, and resilient systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and execute performance testing strategies for web applications, APIs, and critical user journeys using industry-standard tools.
• Develop workload models and test scenarios for load, stress, endurance, capacity, and baseline testing.
• Analyze test results, logs, traces, and network data to identify performance bottlenecks across application layers.
• Conduct frontend performance assessments using browser diagnostics and web performance auditing tools.
• Evaluate Core Web Vitals and recommend performance optimization strategies.
• Build and maintain performance dashboards, monitoring solutions, service-level indicators, and alerts.
• Implement and improve synthetic monitoring and real-user monitoring for key business applications.
• Assess CDN, caching, and content delivery configurations to optimize application performance.
• Integrate automated performance testing and validation into CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
• Collaborate with development, UX, platform, and DevOps teams to implement performance improvements and scalability enhancements.

Required Skills, Experiences, Education, and Competencies:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in performance engineering, performance testing, or software engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, or equivalent platforms.
• Experience conducting frontend performance testing and browser diagnostics using Chrome DevTools and related tools.
• Knowledge of Core Web Vitals, including LCP, INP, CLS, FCP, and TTFB, with expertise in optimization techniques.
• Experience building performance dashboards, monitoring solutions, and alerting frameworks.
• Strong understanding of web application architecture, HTTP protocols, APIs, browsers, and distributed systems.
• Experience with CDN technologies, caching strategies, cache-control policies, and edge delivery concepts.
• Proficiency in scripting or programming languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, or Python for automation and performance analysis.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and problem-solving skills; experience with observability platforms, cloud technologies, CI/CD pipelines, synthetic monitoring, and real-user monitoring is highly preferred.

The hourly range for roles of this nature are $40.00 to $80.00/hr. Rates are heavily dependent on skills, experience, location, and industry.

cyberThink is an Equal Opportunity Employer.