Job Description
Overview We’re seeking a hands-on Performance Test Engineer to design and execute the end-to-end performance strategy for an ad-serving platform (Akka-based Java microservices) targeting <50ms response times and 4–5 million concurrent requests/users .
You’ll build the test harness, model real-world traffic, execute large-scale distributed load tests, and turn findings into actionable tuning guidance .
Responsibilities: Own the performance test strategy & plan (load, stress, spike, soak, scalability, failover).
Model traffic for ad-supported streaming (burstiness, fan-out, cache hit/miss, cold-start, geo distribution, p95/p99/p999).
Build automated load frameworks & scripts (preferably Locust/Python ; JMeter where appropriate).
Parameterize data, correlations, and think-time.
Orchestrate distributed load generation (cloud workers, containerized run...