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Staff/Sr. Software Engineer, Performance Testing Platform joins the Performance Team within Developer Experience to build and scale a performance testing platform for search capabilities. You will design, develop, and operate infrastructure that allows developers to load-test and validate infrastructure changes before production release. Key responsibilities include building traffic capture and replay tools, developing load-generation tooling, and creating pipelines to process performance data at scale. You will apply statistical analysis to model how latency, throughput, and resource usage shift from development to production environments. Required skills include software engineering fundamentals like data structures and algorithms, experience with large-scale distributed systems, and knowledge of Kubernetes, workflow orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines. This role solves the problem of ensuring dev-environment results accurately reflect production behavior.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?
Median $202800 from 409 postings across 38 companies.
Design, develop, and operate a performance testing platform for load-testing infrastructure changes.
Build and improve traffic capture, replay, and load-generation tooling.
Develop pipelines to process large-scale performance data.
Apply statistical analysis to project dev-environment results to production behavior.
Detect and model performance regressions before product rollout.
Monitor key metrics and troubleshoot complex issues to ensure infrastructure health.
Participate in an on-call rotation to maintain critical systems.
What we're looking for
5+ years of experience in software development, including designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems and backend infrastructure.
BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Strong software engineering fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
Strong interest in building performance tooling.
Statistical/analytical experience projecting how dev-environment results map to production behavior (preferred).
Hands-on experience designing load test frameworks: traffic capture/replay, configurable load shapes, concurrency control (preferred).
Experience with observability tooling for root-causing performance regressions (preferred).
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C++
Python
Assembly
JTAG
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Systems Programming
Distributed Version Control
Build Systems
Crash Analysis
Trace
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