teamtailor
Senior QA Engineer Performance & Scalability
Chip
Remote, GBR
Full-time
Senior · 5+ years experience
Remote
GBP 60000-70000 yearly / year
Discovered 3 days ago
k6DatadogGrafanaTypeScriptAWS
Free
Job Fit Check
Base Career helps you apply smarter for this job.
?%
Ready to ScanKey skills for this role
k6DatadogGrafana
Key Skills for This Role
k6DatadogGrafanaTypeScriptAWS
Full Job Posting
What you can expect to be doing
Own Performance from Day One - You embed performance thinking into the delivery plan before code is written, not as an afterthought before release. You make performance testing a natural part of how teams build and ship — not a gate they hit at the end.
Define What Good Looks Like - You own the thresholds, metrics, and SLOs that govern pass or fail. You decide what a breach means, you set the budgets (latency, error rate, throughput), and you make those signals objective enough that a pipeline can act on them without a human reading graphs.
Test Services in Isolation, at Production Scale - You design and build performance tests for individual services, stubbing downstream and third-party dependencies so each journey is tested on its own merits. You map load to real production traffic to find where things bend and where they break.
Lead Performance in CI - You integrate performance testing into CI/CD so regressions are caught automatically, early, and fast. You own the fail-fast signals and keep them trustworthy.
Build Reusable, Scalable Assets - You build performance tests as code, reusable components, templates, and utilities that scale across teams and services. You handle data seeding and test setup so runs are repeatable and realistic.
Diagnose, Don't Just Report - You root-cause regressions across the stack, reading logs and tracing requests through distributed systems to find the source yourself rather than waiting for someone to hand it to you.
Reach Out and Drive Outcomes - You engage the right stakeholders, engineering, platform, product - to turn findings into fixes. You don't file a report and walk away; you drive the outcome.
Influence Decisions - You raise performance and scalability risks early, challenge assumptions constructively, and bring people with you. When a design won't scale, you say so before it ships.
What we’re looking for
5+ years in performance engineering, with a track record of owning performance across complex, modern systems, not just executing someone else's load test.
Apply for this job in 1 click
Skip the repetitive application forms
Install the Base Career Chrome Extension and autofill job applications across major job boards with your profile.
Trusted by over 500,000 job seekers on Base Career
More from this employer
More jobs at Chip
Customer Support Complaints Executive (Remote within the UK)
, GBR
MidFull-time
Discovered 2 days agoView →
Customer Support Complaints Executive (Remote within the UK)
, GBR
Discovered 2 days agoFull-time
Product Operations Analyst
London, GBR
Discovered 1 weeks agoFull-time
Data Analyst
London, GBR
Discovered 2 weeks agoFull-time
Customer Support Team Lead (Remote within the UK)
, GBR
Discovered 2 weeks agoFull-time
CRM Build Manager
London, GBR
Discovered 2 weeks agoFull-time
Customer Support Executive (Remote within the UK)
, GBR
Discovered 3 weeks agoFull-time
Senior Data Engineer (Remote within the UK)
, GBR
Discovered 3 weeks agoFull-time