Performance Test Engineer

SES Corporation

Performance Developer supporting Department of Veterans Affairs LGY through performance monitoring and optimization. Responsible for building observability artifacts and diagnosing performance bottlenecks across the AWS platform.

Posted 5/12/2026full-timeRemote • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsNode.jsPythonSplunk

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

This program provides IT services focused on building, securing, and operating the Department of Veteran Affairs LGY’s home loan product-line technology. The contract’s purpose is to modernize and sustain critical home loan technology systems that support LGY’s delivery of mortgage-related services to program stakeholders, to provide continuous delivery and security integration.
**Position Description:** The Performance Developer will support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Loan Guaranty Service (LGY). The Performance developer will be responsible for building the observability & monitoring artifacts, telemetry and logging that supports serverless system performance, diagnosing performance bottlenecks, and supporting performance optimization efforts across the LGY platform. The Performance Developer will not just write Lambda code, they will own the engineering pattern for how LGY Lambda services are built, instrumented with AWS ADOT, deployed through CI/CD, tested, and monitored in Dynatrace & Splunk. This role works closely with development first and then assists operations teams to ensure system performance scalability, and reliability across Salesforce and AWS-based integration services. The ideal candidate must have development experience working with API-driven systems, cloud infrastructure, and performance monitoring tools to develop & analyze telemetry, logs, and system metrics to identify and resolve performance issues.

Requirements

What you’ll need

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field or equivalent professional experience and 3-7 years of experience.
· Development background experience with Nodejs and Python on serverless architecture. THIS IS A MUST
· Years of experience in performance engineering, application performance monitoring, or system performance analysis.
· Experience with Dynatrace and Splunk
· Experience analyzing application performance metrics and system telemetry.
· Must be able to decipher code for troubleshooting performance issues in API-driven or distributed systems.
· Familiarity with cloud-based environments such as AWS.
· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
· Experience working with monitoring tools and log analysis platforms.
**Preferred Skills**
· Experience supporting VA or federal government IT systems.
· Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, and cloud monitoring tools.
· Familiarity with Salesforce-based applications and enterprise API integrations.
· Experience supporting systems that process sensitive or regulated data.

Benefits

Comp & perks

**SES provides a competitive salary and the following benefits:**
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- AD&D
- STD
- LTD
- Company paid Life Insurance
- 401k with employer contribution
- Paid Time Off
- Pet Insurance

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Hard Skills & Tools

Node.jsPythonserverless architectureperformance engineeringapplication performance monitoringsystem performance analysisAPI-driven systemscloud infrastructuretelemetry analysislog analysis

Soft Skills

analytical skillsproblem-solving skills

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Information TechnologyBachelor’s degree in Engineering