Performance and Reliability Engineer/Architect

At SPD Technology, we bring together a team of like-minded people who are driven by the desire to bring value through their work, united in their commitment to high performance and delivering custom, cutting-edge tech solutions that drive clients’ growth. We empower our people with a culture of excellence and enable them with the opportunity to uphold their accountability to contribute on each level. We value humanity and collaboration, encourage professional and personal growth, and foster a supportive and flexible work environment where everyone’s contribution is welcomed.

We are looking for a Performance & Reliability Engineer/Architect to join us as part of our team.
 

About the role

We are looking for a Performance & Reliability Architect who can define and practically implement the non-functional testing and performance engineering approach across the product landscape.

This is an architect-level, hands-on individual contributor role focused on shaping cross-product performance and reliability strategy while working closely with engineering, Product, Architecture, DevOps/SRE, and QA teams.

The role covers defining and executing performance strategy for critical end-to-end flows, endpoints, APIs, and production-like scenarios; aligning non-functional requirements; supporting SLA/SLO-related validation; establishing quality gates and baselines; and improving the performance framework, observability, dashboards, and reporting.

This is not a direct people-management role, but it does require strong technical leadership, broad system-level thinking, and the ability to guide the overall performance and reliability approach across teams and products.

About the project

FloLIVE is rewriting the playbook for the global IoT Connectivity landscape. Our groundbreaking Connectivity Management Service is reshaping the way Enterprises, Cloud providers, IoT service providers, and Mobile Operators connect and manage their devices across the globe.

Tech Stack

Locust/Gatling/Jmeter; Kotlin/Python; ELK, Prometheus, Grafana; Gremlin/Litmus/Chaos Mesh.

Team Setup

17 people (BE, FE, AQA, DevOps roles)

Work Environment

The role offers a flexible work schedule, allowing you to adapt your working hours with the requirement to attend all team meetings.

As a qualified expert, You will

• Define and lead the performance and reliability strategy across products, with focus on critical E2E flows, endpoints, APIs, and production-like scenarios.
• Collaborate with performance engineers to design and execute performance and scalability testing activities where hands-on involvement is needed.
• Define realistic production-like workloads and test scenarios based on expected traffic, concurrency, throughput, and key business flows.
• Drive NFR alignment with engineering, Product, QA, DevOps/SRE, and Architecture teams, including performance expectations, acceptance criteria, and validation approach.
• Support definition and validation of SLAs/SLOs, performance baselines, and quality gates where needed.
• Establish and evolve a cross-company performance testing approach, including standards, practices, and frameworks that can be applied across multiple products.
• Identify bottlenecks across applications, APIs, databases, infrastructure, and integrations, and provide actionable optimization recommendations.
• Contribute to observability improvements, including dashboards, metrics, logs, reporting, and monitoring visibility.
• Work alongside performance testing engineers and other technical stakeholders, providing direction and architectural guidance while remaining hands-on where needed.
• Prepare clear reports on findings, risks, system limits, benchmark results, and recommended next steps to support production readiness and decision-making.
• Led resilience engineering initiatives by introducing chaos experiments in Kubernetes (OCI), validating system behavior under failure (latency injection, pod eviction, node outages), and integrating experiments into CI/CD pipelines to ensure reliability at scale.

We’re looking for you if you have:

• Strong hands-on experience in performance testing / performance engineering / non-functional testing.
• Experience building, defining, or leading performance strategy for APIs, backend services, distributed systems, or high-load platforms.
• Strong experience with:
  • load and stress testing
  • bottleneck analysis
  • baseline validation
  • performance reporting
  • production-like test scenarios
• Good understanding of NFRs, including performance, scalability, reliability, and availability considerations.
• Experience with SLA/SLO-driven validation and performance quality gates.
• Experience integrating performance checks into CI/CD.
• Experience with quality gates in release processes.
• Experience working with observability and monitoring tools, dashboards, metrics, logs, and reporting, ideally in Kubernetes-based environments.
• Ability to operate as an architect-level hands-on specialist: shaping strategy, aligning teams, and contributing to implementation when needed.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with ability to work effectively across Product, Architecture, DevOps/SRE, QA, and Engineering teams.
• Broad system-level perspective and ability to translate performance goals into practical execution plans.

Bonus Points

• Experience with APM tools and distributed tracing
• Experience with microservices, cloud environments, and Kubernetes at scale
• Experience defining or standardizing performance practices across multiple teams or products

• Familiarity with applying AI/ML techniques to areas such as anomaly detection, performance insights, or predictive scaling

   

Expected deliverables

• Performance and reliability strategy for critical flows and APIs
• Cross-product NFR alignment and validation approach
• Performance baselines and quality gates
• Test scenarios and workload models
• Bottleneck analysis and optimization recommendations
• Performance framework and tooling improvements
• Dashboards, observability inputs, and reporting improvements
• Production-readiness recommendations

What’s in it for You

Reveal great tech solutions

Join the team of experts who create custom, cutting-edge tech solutions for world-renowned businesses, fueling client growth. Unleash your potential, tackle new challenges, and be part of a team that values your skills and contributions. Focus on long-term impact and building tailored, long-lasting partnerships with our clients.

Experience an agile and flexible working environment

Enjoy the freedom of fully remote work with a flexible working schedule. Empower yourself with a stable workload and a stable income, supported by provided laptops and licensed software. We focus on lasting cooperation and unite result-oriented individuals who stand on a high-performance approach to work.

Embrace the opportunity for personal and professional growth

Benefit from performance and merit reviews, elevate your skills with personal development plans, and individual learning through the corporate library, public speaking support, and more.

Be among like-minded people

Work with a team of one mind who cares about what they do and how they do. Collaborate with top-notch experts who are always ready to help and support you through any challenges. Join company-wide tech and cultural events, and contribute to meaningful CSR initiatives that resonate with your values. Feel supported by your HR, and take advantage of our referral bonus program.

Interview steps

• Pre-Screening with the recruiter
• Managerial Interview (45 min)
• Technical interview (up to 90 min)
• Final interview with the client