How does a state minimize fatalities from tornados? How does a company minimize employee risk in the face of a global bomb threat? How does a health system communicate in real time, while at scale? At Everbridge you'll be solving the communication challenges of a modern economy at tremendous scale.

About the Team:

As a member of our Engineering team in Burlington, you will join a team of bright, fast paced performance engineers, distributed between the Burlington and Pasadena offices. Here, you will integrate tightly with the engineering team supporting a diverse set of organizations including Development, Quality, Operations and other shared services teams.

About the Job:

This position offers the right candidate an opportunity to participate in three of the fastest growing segments of the Internet – SaaS, IoT, and the AWS Cloud! The Performance Engineer will contribute to performance engineering practices, further performance test automation tools and test fixtures, consult with product teams on performance test planning and execution, and analyze performance test results. Express your passion for performance engineering automation at Everbridge!

What you'll do:

• Build test automation tool framework and evolve performance test tool approaches using state of the art technologies
• Craft simulations of real-world scenarios and workload patterns for load and scaling validation.
• Provide insights into architectural considerations related to performance engineering tools, including monitoring logs and telemetry
• Work closely with Scrum team/PO/PM to ensure reliability and resiliency concerns are factored into the design of the product and provide feedback with performance concerns.
• Examine faults and inefficiencies and identify the true root causes of performance issues.
• Understand business use cases, internal/external performance Benchmarks, debug performance issues, design performance testing framework, decision making on issues, technical assistance in performance analysis and performance tuning of DB/OS/APIs.
• Good understanding of functional UI automation framework with hands on scripting experience using Python or similar scripting languages.
• Test API and UI performance of new or updated APIs/UI within the sprint along with manual and automation testers.
• Using your knowledge of web-based SaaS applications, databases, operating systems, and cloud computing, you will run tests and analyze results with a summarizing performance issues and suggestions for improvement.
• Provide technical guidance/coaching to Scrum teams on performance testing and UI automation.
• Member of the Shared services team and work in a scaled agile organization

What you'll bring:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years of experience with SaaS performance engineering
• 3 + years of Quality Engineering experience in an automated testing environment
• 1 + years of working experience with Agile environment
• Knowledge of application performance metrics and analysis and define KPI’s.
• Recent experience using Java/Scala and Unix/Linux
• Recent experience using automated performance test tools such as JMeter and Gatling
• Experience in performance tests in Web UI and Microservice REST API
• Experience with building Jenkins CI pipeline for performance/load tests automation and GitHub (or similar) source code repository.
• Recent experience in developing and executing formal test plans, data sets, and test configurations for performance tests
• Strong written, oral and demonstration skills
• Ability to work effectively with product management, software development and quality assurance
• Recent experience in functional UI and API automation using Python based frameworks.
• Hands on experience working with multiple teams across the globe.

Bonus if:

• Experience in microservice architecture is plus.
• Experience performance testing cloud-based applications on Amazon Web Services
• Worked with application performance monitoring tools (APM tools e.g. DataDog, Sumo Logic, App Dynamics, Dynatrace, etc.), profiler for performance issue analysis
• Experience with Jenkins 2+ DSL pipelines
• Experience with managing projects with multiple dependencies

Bridger Culture: 

At Everbridge, we have a mission that matters – to keep people safe and businesses running during critical events. Our “Bridgers” join Everbridge to make a positive impact on the world through their work. The core of our company culture is built around making a difference. Our people are dedicated to solving problems during difficult times and challenging situations as our software was built to save lives.

We are a rapidly growing organization transforming the field of critical event management and need passionate, committed and determined individuals to help us carry out our mission. Our environment is dynamic, and our culture is constantly evolving and expanding in order to provide the best employee experience.

Click here to learn more about what we do. Passionate about our mission? Want to #BeTheBridge? Apply to be a part of our team today!

Everbridge is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, or sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.