Weave Communications, Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer focused on performance to establish and lead their performance engineering practice following the acquisition of Truelark. The role involves ensuring the scalability of the Truelark platform, developing a performance testing framework, and promoting performance best practices within a distributed microservices environment
Job Summary
This role involves establishing Weave's foundational performance engineering practice to ensure the Truelark platform scales flawlessly during a critical business transition.
You will architect and build a scalable, automated performance testing framework integrated into CI/CD pipelines to empower hundreds of engineers.
The position requires deep expertise in diagnosing complex 'third-order' performance issues within a distributed Go-based microservices architecture on Kubernetes.
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Weave Communications, Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer focused on performance to establish and lead their performance engineering practice following the acquisition of Truelark. The role involves ensuring the scalability of the Truelark platform, developing a performance testing framework, and promoting performance best practices within a distributed microservices environment.
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
5+ years performance engineering experience
Go programming proficiency required
Kubernetes architecture expertise
CI/CD pipeline design and implementation
Load stress spike endurance testing
Distributed systems debugging skills
Nice-to-have
k6 or Locust modern tooling experience
Go-specific profiling with pprof
Building internal developer tools
Prometheus Grafana Datadog observability
Experience with Kafka gRPC Postgres
Workshop facilitation and documentation
Key Requirements
5+ years professional experience in Performance Engineering or SRE
Strong software development fundamentals in Go and/or Python
Deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes concepts and workflows
Proven ability to design complex CI/CD pipelines
Expert-level understanding of performance testing methodologies