Software Engineer II - Performance Engineering
IBM · Posted Oct 27
Hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence, enterprise software, quantum computing, and IT consulting services
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About the role
IBM Software builds AI-powered, cloud-native products and solutions for client challenges. This role sits on the Performance Engineering team, focused on ensuring the scalability, performance, and reliability of software systems across IBM HashiCorp cloud and enterprise offerings. The engineer will design performance testing strategies, build automation frameworks for ephemeral and scalable environments, analyze results, and drive reliability and chaos testing improvements.
What you will do
- Implement best practices for system reliability, including proactive identification of potential failure points and the development of automated mitigations
- Design and execute comprehensive performance testing strategies to identify performance bottlenecks and scalability limits across our cloud products
- Work with the engineering teams to identify potential application and infrastructure bottlenecks and suggest changes.
- Work closely with engineering and product teams to integrate performance engineering readiness into the development lifecycle, enhancing product stability and user satisfaction.
- Build and refine tools and frameworks for automated testing, environment simulation, and incident reproduction, reducing manual effort and increasing test coverage.
- Conduct in-depth analysis of testing results, documenting findings and making actionable recommendations for system enhancements.
- Drive Systemic Improvements to the products by introducing Chaos Testing and partnering with product development teams.
- Share your knowledge and expertise with team members, fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
- Develop and implement disaster recovery and backup strategies to ensure data integrity and system resilience.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 4+ years of experience in performance engineering, systems engineering, reliability engineering or non functional testing roles with a focus on performance testing, load testing or system scalability.
- Strong programming skills in Python / Golang and exposure to scripting languages like javascript or shell script
- Experience with version control systems such as Git.
- Strong experience with performance testing tools like K6, Artillery, Vegeta, Locust etc or similar tools for deriving key performance metrics for a product
- Proven track record of leading successful performance testing and optimization initiatives in cloud and on-prem environments.
- Experience in creating and managing test environments for automated testing.
- Experience in creating CI/CD pipelines and maintaining quality gates for system testing.
- Understanding of monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog or Prometheus to develop dashboards indicating metrics that accurately reflect system performance and load break points and regressions.
- Exposure to cloud technologies ( AWS, Azure, Or GCP) and container technologies like Nomad or Kubernetes and/Or working in a Hybrid cloud environment.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills, capable of working with cross-functional teams and articulating technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- You have experience using HashiCorp products (Terraform, Packer, Waypoint, Nomad, Vault, Boundary, Consul).
- Experience with Javascript development / using any test framework based on Java script is a plus.
- Experience in driving systemic improvements through Chaos engineering is a plus.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is a global technology and consulting company that provides hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence, and enterprise infrastructure solutions. Operating in over 175 countries, IBM helps businesses across industries modernize operations, secure data, and drive digital transformation through platforms like watsonx and Red Hat OpenShift. Founded over a century ago, the company remains a pioneer in high-performance computing, enterprise automation, and quantum technology.
- Industry
- Information Technology
- Company size
- 260,000+ employees
- Founded
- June 16, 1911
- Location
- Armonk, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $3.5B raised
- ·Post Ipo Debt$150M
Leadership
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Senior Vice President, Software and Chief Commercial Officer
Senior Vice President, IBM Consulting
Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications
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