Senior Performance Test Engineer

Job Description

Roadie, a UPS company, is seeking a Senior Performance Test Engineer to play a crucial role in performance issue analysis and optimization. The engineer will help ensure the company's systems scale efficiently to meet growing business demands in a fast-paced CI/CD environment.Roadie is a leading logistics and delivery platform that helps businesses tackle the complexities of modern retail with unmatched delivery coverage, flexibility, and visibility. With a network of more than 310,000 independent drivers nationwide, Roadie offers flexible delivery solutions that make complex logistics challenges easy.What this role involves:

• Designing, developing, and executing load and performance testing strategies.
• Investigating performance issues in both test and production environments.
• Collaborating closely with developers to understand service architecture and behavior.
• Providing actionable optimization recommendations across database, infrastructure, and application code.
• Building and maintaining modular, reusable test scripts.
• Simulating real-world user scenarios to help teams reproduce and resolve complex production issues.
• Analyzing system telemetry to identify and troubleshoot live performance bottlenecks.
• Supporting peak season planning efforts.
• Participation in on-call rotation, as needed.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in QA, Development, or Site Reliability with a strong focus on performance engineering.
• Proficiency in Python or JavaScript/Go/Ruby, and SQL.
• Hands-on experience with microservices-based architectures, AWS, and APM tools such as New Relic, AppDynamics, or Dynatrace.
• Expertise with any performance testing tools such as JMeter, Locust, k6, Gatling.
• Ability to extract and analyze performance metrics from relational databases.
• Strong grasp of performance testing methodologies, planning, and root cause analysis techniques.
• Experience in fast-paced agile environments with short release cycles.
• Detail-oriented with a methodical and analytical approach to problem-solving.

What Roadie offers:

• Competitive compensation packages.
• 100% covered health insurance premiums for yourself.
• 401k with company match.
• Tuition and student loan repayment assistance.
• Flexible work schedule with unlimited PTO.
• Monthly 3-day weekends.
• Monthly WFH stipend.
• Paid sabbatical leave.