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