Senior Performance Test Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

Roadie, a UPS company, is a leading logistics and delivery platform that helps businesses tackle the complexities of modern retail with unmatched delivery coverage, flexibility and visibility. Reaching 97% of U.S. households across more than 30,000 zip codes — from urban hubs to rural communities — Roadie provides seamless, scalable solutions that meet a variety of delivery needs. With a network of more than 310,000 independent drivers nationwide, Roadie offers flexible delivery solutions that make complex logistics challenges easy, including solutions for local same-day delivery, delivery of big and bulky items, ship-from-store and DC-to-door. Our innovative engineers are building technology that solves real-world problems in the crowdsourced delivery space. We’re looking for a Senior Performance Test Engineer who can go beyond traditional black-box testing and play a critical role in performance issue analysis and optimization. In this role, you will help ensure our systems scale efficiently to meet growing business demands in a fast-paced CI/CD environment.

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.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute load and performance testing strategies.
• Investigate performance issues in both test and production environments.
• Collaborate closely with developers to understand service architecture and behavior, define relevant KPIs, and implement effective observability and monitoring.
• Provide actionable optimization recommendations across database, infrastructure, and application code.
• Correlate test results with production metrics to validate expected system behavior.
• Build and maintain modular, reusable test scripts that can adapt to evolving project needs.
• Simulate real-world user scenarios to help teams reproduce and resolve complex production issues.
• Analyze system telemetry to identify and troubleshoot live performance bottlenecks.
• Support peak season planning efforts by validating system resilience and scalability under projected peak loads.

Why Roadie?

• Competitive compensation packages
• 100% covered health insurance premiums for yourself
• 401k with company match
• Tuition and student loan repayment assistance