Duo Security
Our mission is simple: democratize security by making it easy and effective for everyone to use.
Austin, TX
Hybrid

Senior Performance Engineer

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Duo Security, now a part of Cisco, is the leading provider of Trusted Access security and multi-factor authentication delivered through the cloud.

Duo’s mission is to make security simple for everyone. We were born from a hacker ethos and a desire to make the Internet a secure place. We believe in empowering people to follow their passions inside and outside of the office and enable every employee to bring their whole self to work.

Our team is our secret weapon. We run the spectrum from artists to analysts, low-key to high energy, and bring together a diversity of skill sets, experiences, and perspectives to solve what we consider to be the world's most pressing geopolitical challenge — transforming the security industry as we know it. Together we build solutions that are easy, effective, trustworthy, and enduring. And that’s why we are the most loved and trusted company in security.

As a Sr. Performance Engineer, your role is to design and execute Performance Test Plans and Test Cases that help to ensure that the organization delivers a high-quality, performant product to the customer. A strong, proven Software Developer background is absolutely necessary for this role ( coding is ~ 60%). Experience in test case, api automation, database (and query) optimization and tuning all with regards to performance test automation (with CI integration) is essential. You will partner with dev and the product team to bake in performance at each step of the SDLC. You will help provide best practices, tools for performance optimization and make suggestions for engineering to trend towards. You will define, measure and publish metrics to measure product and build performance and help teams improve them. You will understand priorities and risks and help focus our quality build efforts on where they matter the most.

The Performance Test Engineer is expected to be an advocate for the customer and to provide an assessment of software performance and quality, based on test results.

You will work with our Duo Engineers to understand their needs and help develop solutions to make them more efficient engineers in the Duo build ecosystem.You will be responsible for analyzing data, documenting and presenting performance limits for internal and external consumption. You will document performance test practices that is consumable by Duo engineering and our customers.

You will work with mobile apps, backend Linux services, SAAS products etc, thus growing the breadth and depth of your knowledge. Learn on the job, every single day and become the best Build Engineer and Quality professional you possibly can be!

Skills you have…

  • You have 10+ years of software performance engineering experience including:
  • Software Development Background to extend our performance framework, understand our product APIs and fix issues found in product
  • Helping lead a small team of engineers and demonstrate performance test impact in an organization
  • Performance tools like locust, gatling, tsung, jmeter, k6 (among others)
  • Performance Metrics for consumption by engineers, customers and tooling
  • Performance optimization - tuning and optimizing databases, os and code.
  • Deep knowledge of performance resources - CPUs, Main Memory, Storage Devices, Controllers, Interconnects
  • Monitoring and Troubleshooting of performance resources and making suggestions and/or fixing issue(s)
  • Traffic and Data generation
  • Solid Linux skills
  • Scripting and strongly typed Languages like python (preferred), bash, ruby, go, java, c#, swift
  • Cloud experience (AWS preferred) and cloud automation tooling (Ansible, AWS API, etc.)
  • Deep curiosity of how our product works to help drive performance testing to new limits

Nice to have

  • Test Automation with Selenium, Python scripting, Mobile QA skills like Appium, services like BrowserStack and SauceLabs.

Duo is committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and connectedness. We are able to grow and learn better together with a diverse team of employees. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, and talent that our employees invest in their work represents not only part of our culture, but our reputation and Duo’s achievement as well. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that all potential candidates can bring in terms of their education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, gender identity and expression, nationality, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.

And if this role is exciting you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all 100% of the description or qualifications. Finally and most importantly, we are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer.

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What are Duo Security Perks + Benefits

Duo Security Benefits Overview

We like to keep everyone happy and healthy. From financial security to personal growth, we're here to support you.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Highly diverse management team
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Mean gender pay gap below 10%
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Company equity
Employee stock purchase plan
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Adoption Assistance
Company sponsored family events
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Office Perks
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Onsite office parking
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Tuition reimbursement
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks
Paid industry certifications

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