Manager, Performance and Test Engineering

About the Opportunity: Manager, Performance and Test Engineering

The Manager, Performance and Test Engineering will lead the organization’s Performance Test Engineering, Load & Stress Testing, and Test Automation (SDET) functions. This leader will develop and execute a long-term strategy for performance validation, observability-driven testing, automation frameworks, and scalable quality engineering practices. The role partners closely with Engineering, Architecture, Product, and Platform Engineering to ensure the platform is reliable, performant, observable, and backed by robust automated quality signals.

Responsibilities:

• Build and lead a high-performing team of Performance Engineers and SDETs.
• Define the vision and roadmap for performance engineering, load testing, and automated testing across the product ecosystem.
• Drive a unified quality engineering strategy that blends performance, reliability, observability, and automation.
• Mentor and develop engineers, creating growth paths and fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and craftsmanship.
• Own the performance engineering discipline, including system-level performance, scalability, latency, and capacity modeling.
• Oversee load, stress, and chaos/performance experiments aligned to product SLAs and SLOs.
• Partner with Platform and DevEx Engineering to strengthen observability tooling, metrics, and dashboards.
• Build frameworks and processes to proactively detect performance issues before they reach production.
• Lead development of scalable, maintainable test automation frameworks for UI, API, and integration testing.
• Evolve testing practices to shift-left quality signals into CI/CD pipelines.
• Establish standards for test coverage, automation ROI, and quality metrics.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed automated quality practices into daily workflows.
• Partner with Engineering to ensure performance and automation platforms integrate seamlessly into development ecosystems.
• Work with Product Management to define performance requirements, benchmarks, and quality gates.
• Coordinate with SRE/Platform teams to align on capacity planning, infrastructure improvements, and production insights.

Requirements:

• 7+ years in Quality Engineering, Performance Engineering, SDET leadership, or related fields.
• 3+ years leading or managing high-performing engineering teams (SDET or performance-focused).
• Strong hands-on understanding of performance engineering: profiling, benchmarking, systems analysis, test design, and result interpretation.
• Deep experience with modern test automation frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, and API automation.
• Solid understanding of observability practices (metrics, logs, traces) and tools like Datadog, Rollbar, and Grafana.
• Experience building automated quality signals into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, preferably AWS.
• Experience driving culture change toward shift-left quality engineering.
• Exposure to reliability practices including SLOs, error budgets, and resilience testing.
• Strong communication and leadership skills with the ability to influence across teams.

Benefits & Perks:

• Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
• 4 weeks of vacation, 12 company holidays, parental leave, and volunteer time off
• 401k plans with up to 6% company match
• $2000 Paid-Paid Vacation bonus
• Employee Assistance Program through Headspace

Key skills/competency

• Performance Engineering
• Test Automation (SDET)
• Load Testing
• Observability
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Distributed Systems
• AWS
• Team Leadership
• Quality Engineering
• Reliability Engineering