Senior Performance Test Engineer
Roadie, a UPS company, is a leading logistics and delivery platform that helps businesses tackle the complexities of modern retail with unmatched delivery coverage, flexibility and visibility. Reaching 97% of U.S. households across more than 30,000 zip codes — from urban hubs to rural communities — Roadie provides seamless, scalable solutions that meet a variety of delivery needs.
With a network of more than 310,000 independent drivers nationwide, Roadie offers flexible delivery solutions that make complex logistics challenges easy, including solutions for local same-day delivery, delivery of big and bulky items, ship-from-store and DC-to-door.
Our innovative engineers are building technology that solves real-world problems in the crowdsourced delivery space. We’re looking for a Senior Performance Test Engineer who can go beyond traditional black-box testing and play a critical role in performance issue analysis and optimization. In this role, you will help ensure our systems scale efficiently to meet growing business demands in a fast-paced CI/CD environment.
What You’ll Do
Design, develop, and execute load and performance testing strategies
Investigate performance issues in both test and production environments
Collaborate closely with developers to understand service architecture and behavior, define relevant KPIs, and implement effective observability and monitoring
Provide actionable optimization recommendations across database, infrastructure, and application code
Correlate test results with production metrics to validate expected system behavior
Build and maintain modular, reusable test scripts that can adapt to evolving project needs
Simulate real-world user scenarios to help teams reproduce and resolve complex production issues
Analyze system telemetry to identify and troubleshoot live performance bottlenecks
Support peak season planning efforts by validating system resilience and scalability under projected peak loads
What You Bring
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
5+ years of experience in QA, Development, or Site Reliability with a strong focus on performance engineering
Proficiency in Python or JavaScript/Go/Ruby, and SQL
Hands-on experience with microservices-based architectures, AWS, and APM tools such as New Relic, AppDynamics, or Dynatrace
Expertise with any performance testing tools such as JMeter, Locust, k6, Gatling
Ability to extract and analyze performance metrics from relational databases
Strong grasp of performance testing methodologies, planning, and root cause analysis techniques
Experience in fast-paced agile environments with short release cycles
Detail-oriented with a methodical and analytical approach to problem-solving
Why Roadie?
Competitive compensation packages
100% covered health insurance premiums for yourself
401k with company match
Tuition and student loan repayment assistance (that’s right - Roadie will contribute directly to your existing student loans!)
Flexible work schedule with unlimited PTO
Monthly 3-day weekends
Monthly WFH stipend
Paid sabbatical leave- tenured team members are given time to rest, relax, and explore
The technology you need to get the job done
Apply Now
Apply Now
With a network of more than 310,000 independent drivers nationwide, Roadie offers flexible delivery solutions that make complex logistics challenges easy, including solutions for local same-day delivery, delivery of big and bulky items, ship-from-store and DC-to-door.
Our innovative engineers are building technology that solves real-world problems in the crowdsourced delivery space. We’re looking for a Senior Performance Test Engineer who can go beyond traditional black-box testing and play a critical role in performance issue analysis and optimization. In this role, you will help ensure our systems scale efficiently to meet growing business demands in a fast-paced CI/CD environment.
What You’ll Do
Design, develop, and execute load and performance testing strategies
Investigate performance issues in both test and production environments
Collaborate closely with developers to understand service architecture and behavior, define relevant KPIs, and implement effective observability and monitoring
Provide actionable optimization recommendations across database, infrastructure, and application code
Correlate test results with production metrics to validate expected system behavior
Build and maintain modular, reusable test scripts that can adapt to evolving project needs
Simulate real-world user scenarios to help teams reproduce and resolve complex production issues
Analyze system telemetry to identify and troubleshoot live performance bottlenecks
Support peak season planning efforts by validating system resilience and scalability under projected peak loads
What You Bring
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
5+ years of experience in QA, Development, or Site Reliability with a strong focus on performance engineering
Proficiency in Python or JavaScript/Go/Ruby, and SQL
Hands-on experience with microservices-based architectures, AWS, and APM tools such as New Relic, AppDynamics, or Dynatrace
Expertise with any performance testing tools such as JMeter, Locust, k6, Gatling
Ability to extract and analyze performance metrics from relational databases
Strong grasp of performance testing methodologies, planning, and root cause analysis techniques
Experience in fast-paced agile environments with short release cycles
Detail-oriented with a methodical and analytical approach to problem-solving
Why Roadie?
Competitive compensation packages
100% covered health insurance premiums for yourself
401k with company match
Tuition and student loan repayment assistance (that’s right - Roadie will contribute directly to your existing student loans!)
Flexible work schedule with unlimited PTO
Monthly 3-day weekends
Monthly WFH stipend
Paid sabbatical leave- tenured team members are given time to rest, relax, and explore
The technology you need to get the job done
Apply Now
Apply Now