Performance Engineer

Job Description

Performance Engineer:
On behalf of our technology client, Procom is searching for a Performance Engineer for a 12-month role. This position is a hybrid position with 4 days onsite at our client’s Austin, Texas office.

Performance Engineer - Job Description:
We are seeking a Performance Engineer to enhance the speed, scalability, reliability, and user experience of our digital platforms. This role involves performance testing, frontend auditing, and hands-on engineering to identify bottlenecks and drive improvements across applications and infrastructure.

Performance Engineer - Responsibilities:
• Plan and execute performance testing for web applications, APIs, and critical user journeys using tools such as JMeter and LoadRunner.
• Design workload models and test scenarios for baseline, load, stress, endurance, and capacity testing.
• Analyze results, traces, logs, and network waterfalls to identify frontend, backend, infrastructure, and dependency bottlenecks.
• Conduct frontend performance audits using tools such as Lighthouse, WebPageTest, Chrome DevTools, and real-user monitoring platforms.
• Build and maintain performance dashboards, service-level indicators, and actionable alerts using observability platforms.
• Configure and improve synthetic monitoring and real-user monitoring for key pages and user journeys.
• Collaborate with developers, UX/UI designers, API teams, and platform/DevOps teams to resolve issues and improve delivery practices.

Performance Engineer - Mandatory Skills:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in performance engineering, performance testing, or software engineering.
• Strong experience designing, running, and analyzing load and performance tests with JMeter, LoadRunner, or comparable tools.
• Experience with frontend performance testing and browser diagnostics, including Chrome DevTools and network analysis.
• Hands-on experience building performance dashboards, monitoring systems, and alerting.
• Working knowledge of web application architecture, HTTP, APIs, browsers, and distributed systems.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.

Performance Engineer – Nice-to-Have Skills:
• Experience with Akamai configuration, CDN analytics, caching rules, or edge delivery.
• Familiarity with observability platforms such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic, or Grafana.
• Experience with Lighthouse CI, WebPageTest, SpeedCurve, mPulse, or similar frontend performance tools.
• Experience with cloud platforms, containers, and Docker.
• Knowledge of accessibility standards, including WCAG 2.2 AA.

Performance Engineer – Assignment Length:
This is a 12-month assignment with the possibility of extending to 18-24 months.

Performance Engineer - Start Date:
ASAP.

Performance Engineer - Assignment Location:
Austin, Texas, United States. This position is hybrid with 4 days in the office.

Benefits

Procom provides Basic Life/AD&D insurance, Short- and Long-Term Disability, and EAP at no cost to eligible employees after a waiting period. Medical and dental coverage (employee premium contributions), a non-matching 401(k) plan, and additional voluntary coverage are also available. This role includes legislatively required paid leave; no bonus, commission, or equity compensation applies.