Performance Quality Engineer - Remote Opportunity

About the Role

At 8am, we are excited to announce an opening for a Performance Quality Engineer to join our remote team. In this role, you will be responsible for performance observability, defining meaningful metrics, and driving data-informed decisions about system behavior under load. As a Performance Quality Engineer, you will collaborate with Platform Engineering, development teams, and product leadership to surface performance risks before they become customer-facing problems.

What You'll Do

• Design and create performance test suites for multiple product teams against a microservices-based SaaS platform running on AWS.
• Operate and help maintain production-like environments for performance analysis, diagnosis, and regression testing.
• Analyze application and infrastructure logs to identify, isolate, and help root-cause performance degradations.
• Define, track, and report on performance KPIs (response times, throughput, error rates, resource utilization) and deliver trend analysis and projections to engineering leadership and product stakeholders.
• Use usage and trend data to identify capacity risks and provide recommendations before they impact customers.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering, DevX, SDET, and Product teams to prioritize and validate performance improvements.
• Partner with Security QE on the overlap between performance and security risk.
• Identify and define nonfunctional performance tests for CI/CD pipeline gates (Integration, Regression, Post-Deployment).

Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on performance testing and analysis on microservices-based, cloud-hosted (AWS) SaaS platforms.
• Strong analytical skills with a demonstrated ability to move from symptoms to root cause.
• Working knowledge of AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, ECS/EKS), Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with performance testing tools (k6, Gatling, Locust, JMeter, or equivalent).
• Scripting proficiency in Python or comparable language for test scenarios, data analysis, and light tooling.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken); Czech language skills are a plus but not required.

Nice to Have

• Experience integrating performance tests into CI/CD pipelines as automated quality gates.
• Familiarity with APM tools and distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, X-Ray).
• Experience building performance dashboards and automated regression alerting.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Fully remote work environment with flexible hours.
• Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.
• A diverse and inclusive workplace culture.
• Supportive team environment with a focus on wellness and engagement.