Senior Performance Engineer (Remote/Flexible)

Insulet started in 2000 with an idea and a mission to enable our customers to enjoy simplicity, freedom and healthier lives through the use of our Omnipod® product platform. In the last two decades we have improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of patients by using innovative technology that is wearable, waterproof, and lifestyle accommodating.

We are looking for highly motivated, performance driven individuals to be a part of our expanding team. We do this by hiring amazing people guided by shared values who exceed customer expectations. Our continued success depends on it!

Position Overview:

Insulet Corporation, maker of Omnipod, is the leader in tubeless insulin pumps. We are looking for performance engineers to build and scale our next generation of products. This is a fast paced environment working on challenging problems. Your work will impact the lives of people living with diabetes!

As a Cloud Performance Engineer you will work with a team of skilled, cross-functional engineers building and scaling services that support our medical devices, mobile applications, partner integrations, and data analytics. You will partner with teams, both local and abroad, to build world class medical device software. Candidates should have experience developing production-quality software. Responsibilities:

• Ensure Cloud solutions meet defined SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs
• Build Cloud performance harnesses using tools such as JMeter, Locust, Python, and Kubernetes
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design scalable, cost-effective solutions
• Analyze performance findings and provide recommendations to optimize Cloud configurations
• Document and report performance findings to development team and stakeholders
• Participate in capacity planning and forecasting activities to ensure resources support Insulet growth and peak loads
• Work closely with Site Reliability Engineering to refine SLIs and build monitoring capabilities
• Create dashboards using monitoring services such as AWS CloudWatch and DataDog
• Automate performance activities in Bamboo/Jenkins CI/CD builds
• Python scripting, as necessary, to support performance activities
• Comply with Insulet quality practices for the design and maintenance of medical products

Education and Experience:

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering or 3+ years of performance testing experience is preferred
• Experience planning and designing performance tests for load, stress, spikes, and scalability is preferred
• Experience developing performance testing scripts for AWS or Cloud is preferred
• Fluent with Python is preferred

Additional Qualifications:

• Experience developing with performance testing tools such as JMeter or Locust is preferred
• Experience with message delivery systems such as RabbitMQ and Kafka is preferred
• Experience with MongoDB is preferred
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, DataDog or other tools to instrument, generate, and collect data is preferred
• Able to work independently with minimum supervision is preferred
• Able to communicate with candor and trust at multiple levels of the organization is preferred

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