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Performance Engineer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of performance testing/performance engineering background with web applications and distributed systems
  • Hands-on expertise in performance testing tools such as k6, JMeter, or Gatling
  • Familiarity with Locust or comparable load testing tools
  • Solid understanding of load, stress, and spike testing

Responsibilities

  • Shape the performance testing and performance engineering strategy driven by application architecture, business usage patterns, and NFRs
  • Translate business and technical NFRs into measurable performance acceptance criteria, test scenarios, workload models, and success thresholds
  • Run load, stress, spike, endurance/soak, scalability, and capacity tests across web applications, APIs, and backend services
  • Create and maintain automated performance test scripts leveraging existing performance testing frameworks

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Problem Solving

About the company

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EPAM Systems

  • IT Services & Consulting
  • XLarge
  • 10,001+
Since 1993, EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM) has used its software engineering expertise to become a leading global provider of digital engineering, cloud and AI-enabled transformation services, and a leading business and experience consulting partner for global enterprises and ambitious startups. We address our clients’ transformation challenges by fusing EPAM Continuum’s integrated strategy, experience and technology consulting with our 30+ years of engineering execution to speed our clients’ time to market and drive greater value from their innovations and digital investments. We make GenAI real with our AI LLM orchestration, testing and engineering solutions, EPAM DIAL, EPAM EliteA™ and EPAM AI/RUN™, respectively. We deliver globally, but engage locally with our expert teams of consultants, architects, designers and engineers, making the future real for our clients, our partners and our people around the world. We believe the right solutions are the ones that improve people’s lives and fuel competitive advantage for our clients across diverse industries. Our thinking comes to life in the experiences, products and platforms we design and bring to market. Added to the S&P 500 and the Forbes Global 2000 in 2021 and recognized by Glassdoor and Newsweek as a Top 100 Best Workplace, our multidisciplinary teams serve customers across six continents. We are proud to be among the top 15 companies in Information Technology Services in the Fortune 1000 and to be recognized as a leader in the IDC MarketScapes for Worldwide Experience Build Services, Worldwide Experience Design Services and Worldwide Software Engineering Services. Learn more at www.epam.com.

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Job description

We are seeking a Performance Engineer to support the design and delivery of the performance engineering approach across our applications and supporting services. Within this role, you will verify Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), covering response time, throughput, scalability, stability, and resource utilization. The engineer will partner closely with development, DevSecOps, architecture, and product teams to detect performance risks early, create automated performance testing capabilities, examine system behavior under realistic workloads, and confirm applications meet agreed performance and scalability targets prior to production release. Responsibilities Shape the performance testing and performance engineering strategy driven by application architecture, business usage patterns, and NFRs Translate business and technical NFRs into measurable performance acceptance criteria, test scenarios, workload models, and success thresholds Run load, stress, spike, endurance/soak, scalability, and capacity tests across web applications, APIs, and backend services Create and maintain automated performance test scripts leveraging existing performance testing frameworks Evaluate the performance of HTTP/REST and gRPC-based APIs and services Design workload models driven by expected user volumes, concurrency, transaction patterns, and production-like behavior Examine performance across the application stack, covering frontend, APIs, services, databases, caching layers, infrastructure, and third-party dependencies Detect performance bottlenecks and take part in root-cause analysis leveraging application, infrastructure, database, and observability data Verify application behavior under normal, peak, and sustained workloads Track key performance indicators such as response time, latency, throughput, error rate, concurrency, CPU, memory, network utilization, and database performance Embed performance tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous performance validation and catch regressions early Define performance baselines and monitor performance trends across releases Partner with software engineers and DevSecOps teams to confirm performance optimizations Deliver clear performance test reports, flag risks, and communicate whether agreed NFRs and release criteria have been met Assist capacity planning activities for application and AWS infrastructure scalability Requirements 2+ years of performance testing/performance engineering background with web applications and distributed systems Hands-on expertise in performance testing tools such as k6, JMeter, or Gatling Familiarity with Locust or comparable load testing tools Solid understanding of load, stress, and spike testing Working knowledge of endurance/soak, scalability, and capacity testing Intermediate English proficiency (B1+ level)

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