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Performance Architect

Square Hiring

 

San Francisco, CA, USA

Posted On: Just posted
Experience: 8+ years
Availability: Onsite
Openings: 1
Category: Performance Architect
Tenure: Contract - Corp-to-Corp
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Description

You will define enterprise-wide performance engineering standards, architecture, and best practices to ensure scalability and reliability across distributed systems.

This role is on-site.

Responsibilities

  • Design and execute performance, load, stress, and scalability testing strategies using automated frameworks.
  • Analyze application behavior under varying workloads to identify bottlenecks and conduct root cause analysis across application, database, and cloud layers.
  • Optimize APIs, microservices, and databases to improve response times, throughput, and resource utilization.
  • Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and drive observability practices using APM tools.
  • Mentor engineers on performance principles, lead capacity planning, and define governance processes for performance architecture.

Required Skills

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering, performance engineering, or architecture roles.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP), and enterprise application architectures.
  • Hands-on experience with performance testing tools: JMeter, LoadRunner, k6, Gatling, or Azure Load Testing.
  • Proficiency with APM and observability tools: Azure Application Insights, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, or Splunk.
  • Strong SQL skills and experience with database performance tuning.
  • Experience with CI/CD platforms and DevOps practices.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience designing performance strategies for large-scale enterprise applications.
  • Knowledge of microservices, Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native architectures.

Education

Bachelor's degree

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