Senior Backend Engineer – Performance

Weave

Senior Backend Engineer to lead performance engineering at Weave, focusing on scaling and reliability during customer onboarding. Responsibilities include performance testing and creating developer tools.

Posted 6/6/2026full-timeRemote • Utah • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

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Hard Skills

performance testingroot cause analysisCI/CD pipelinesGoPythonKubernetesload testingstress testingendurance testingscalability testing

Soft Skills

analytical skillsdebugging skillsproblem-solving skillscommunication skills

Tools & Technologies

Truelark platform

Industry Keywords

performance engineersoftware engineer in testSREDevOpslarge-scale distributed systems

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsGoKubernetesPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Immediately take the lead on the end-to-end performance testing, analysis, and tuning for the newly acquired Truelark platform.
Architect, build, and maintain a scalable, automated performance testing framework deeply integrated into our CI/CD pipelines.
Develop and document reference implementations for performance testing critical path systems.
Go beyond surface-level metrics to perform deep root cause analysis of performance bottlenecks.
Partner closely with infrastructure and product teams to define, measure, and monitor SLOs for latency, throughput, and availability of critical services.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years (for Senior level) or 8+ years (for Staff level) of professional experience in roles such as Performance Engineer, Software Engineer in Test, SRE, DevOps, or Software Engineer with a deep focus on the performance, scalability, and reliability of large-scale distributed systems.
Strong software development fundamentals and significant hands-on experience building, testing, and maintaining complex applications or infrastructure using Go and/or Python.
Deep, hands-on expertise with Kubernetes concepts, architecture, and workflows is required.
Proven ability to design, implement, and optimize complex CI/CD pipelines to integrate automated testing, including performance testing.
Expert-level understanding of performance testing methodologies, including load, stress, spike, endurance, and scalability testing.
Exceptional analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills with a proven ability to diagnose and solve complex, cross-service performance issues in distributed systems.
Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas clearly and effectively.

Benefits

Comp & perks

This position will be remote, in the US
Employment with Weave is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check