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Senior Performance & Load Testing Engineer ( k6, Locust, and/or Gatling - 12+ Years - Hybrid in NYC

Bright SolNew York, NY🇺🇸United StatesPosted Sep 17, 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
New York, NY, United States
Posted
23 hours ago

Job Description

🚨 HIRING: Senior Performance & Load Testing Engineer 🚨

💼 Role: Senior Performance & Load Testing Engineer
🎯 Experience: Senior-Level
🛠️ Focus: Performance Engineering | Load Testing | Scalability

🔹 Job Description:

We are looking for a highly experienced, hands-on Performance & Load Testing Engineer with expertise in designing and executing large-scale performance tests for modern applications.

The ideal candidate should have strong experience in HTTP/API, event-driven, and WebSocket load testing, performance analysis, bottleneck identification, and distributed load generation.

🔑 Must-Have Skills:

✅ Strong hands-on experience in Performance & Load Testing

✅ Expertise in k6, Locust, and/or Gatling

✅ HTTP/API and WebSocket load-testing experience

✅ Distributed load generation and large-scale testing

✅ Performance analysis: latency percentiles (p95/p99), throughput, and error rates

✅ Bottleneck identification and performance troubleshooting

✅ Familiarity with modern observability tools and monitoring stacks

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