Senior Performance Software Engineer

NinjaOne provides a Unified IT Operations Platform that helps organizations manage endpoints, patching, backup, and remote access in a single console. The company is seeking a Senior Performance Software Engineer to lead performance testing, data generation frameworks, standards, and optimization initiatives to improve scalability, throughput, latency, and overall system efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Performance Testing Design and Implementation- Design, implement, maintain, and support performance testing and data generation frameworks to surface actionable performance insights, using k6, JavaScript, Grafana, and InfluxDB
• Documentation- Develop and maintain technical documentation, architectural decision records, and performance standards
• Develop Performance Best Practices- Define and evolve best practices for performance optimization, scalability, and measurement. Partner with engineering teams to shape performance testing strategies and scalability approaches. Collaborate with teams to analyze performance bottlenecks and drive solution identification and remediation

Requirements:

• Location - We are flexible on remote working from home, if you are located in the USA and reside in one of the following states - CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, *IL, KS, MA, MD, ME, NJ, NC, NY, OR, TN, TX, VA, and WA
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, including 2+ years in K6 or other load test frameworks, Javascript
• 3+ years of experience in Cloud Native Environments AWS will make you a standout candidate
• Strong background in design, performance and optimization tuning
• Deep expertise with distributed computing systems and container native environments
• Proficient in scripting for automation and observability such as Bash, Python, or similar scripting languages
• Excellent troubleshooting and communication skills across technical and non-technical teams
• Experience with relational databases, NinjaOne uses PostgreSQL so experience with this database will make you more qualified in our tech stack
• This position is NOT eligible for Visa sponsorship
• *Due to operational policies, NinjaOne is unable to hire for this role within the city limits of Chicago. We will consider all qualified candidates who reside outside of the city proper or are willing to self-relocate
• We hire the best software engineers, but experience in our stack can't hurt: NinjaOne is built on Java, Kotlin, C++, Golang and Postgres, supporting millions of user endpoints and running as a scalable cloud service in AWS. Knowing large-scale datastore bottlenecks, asynchronous application design and client-server architecture will help you