Software Development Engineer in Test - Performance Focus

Overview

Software Development Engineer in Test focused on performance engineering frameworks and automation for an AI-first self-service platform.

What you'll do

• Build features for an agentic, AI-first self-service performance platform.
• Develop reusable tools, templates, scripts, SDKs, and workflows for API/UI/service/code performance testing.
• Integrate performance checks into CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows.
• Build AI-assisted workflows for performance test creation, execution, result analysis, defect creation, and notifications.
• Support performance validation for critical user journeys, releases, and scale events.
• Standardize performance test inputs, outputs, thresholds, evidence, and reporting.
• Integrate with observability tools such as Datadog.

What you'll need

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Programming experience in Python, TypeScript, Go, or similar languages.
• Understanding of APIs, distributed systems, and service-to-service communication.
• Experience with automation and CI/CD or developer workflows.
• Familiarity with performance testing concepts like load, spike, soak, stress, capacity, or regression.
• Familiarity with observability using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, or alerts.
• Must have experience with tools such as k6, Locust, and Grasshopper.
• Experience with Python and TypeScript.
• Experience with Datadog and OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, or InfluxDB.
• Experience with Kubernetes, cloud-native systems, or large-scale SaaS platforms.

Nice to have

• Experience with Playwright.
• Experience with SLOs, SLIs, Apdex, error budgets, or burn-rate alerting.
• Experience building AI agents, MCPs, AI-assisted developer tools, or agentic automation workflows.
• Experience with Jira automation, defect routing, or engineering dashboards.

Details

• Work location: Pune (Hybrid).