Staff Performance Test Engineer

Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers' pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We're backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.

About The Role

Join our team as a Staff Performance Test Engineer and shape the performance engineering landscape across Harness's entire platform. In this senior role, you'll architect and drive performance excellence across multiple product modules while establishing yourself as the go-to expert for scalability and reliability challenges.

You'll partner closely with architects, Site Reliability Engineers, and development teams to influence critical design decisions and drive performance improvements from the ground up. This is an opportunity to build cutting-edge performance frameworks that will scale with our rapidly growing platform.

What You'll Do

Strategic Leadership & Framework Development

• Champion performance testing strategy and execution across all Harness modules
• Architect scalable, reusable performance testing frameworks and automated pipelines
• Establish performance benchmarks in partnership with product and engineering leadership

Performance Analysis & Optimization

Innovation & Tooling

Team Development & Collaboration

Core Experience

What We're Looking For

Technical Expertise

Leadership & Communication

Bonus Points

Work Location

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

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Skills Required

Java, Github, Gatling, Elk, Prometheus, Bash, Grafana, Datadog, Jenkins, Harness, Jmeter, Gcp, Docker, Gitlab, Azure, Kubernetes, Python, Aws