Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, including high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Backed by Greylock and Menlo.
About the role
The salary range for this position is $159,910 - $195,680 /year. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Assess the importance and ROI of different performance testing strategies and tools (e.g., k6, Locust, chaos engineering frameworks) for the Konflux ecosystem
- Drive the definition of performance baselines, Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for Konflux, collaborating with stakeholders to ensure they meet business needs
- Work closely with Konflux engineering, QE, SRE, and product management teams to embed performance considerations throughout the development lifecycle and gain buy-in for strategic initiatives
- Define requirements for effective performance monitoring, observability (metrics, tracing, logging using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, etc.), and automated alerting to detect regressions and anomalies
- Proactively analyze potential performance bottlenecks across the Konflux stack (including dependencies like etcd, networking, storage) and recommend optimization strategies
- Translate strategic goals and identified gaps into actionable tasks (e.g., Jira epics/stories) and work with teams on prioritization for capacity planning, cost optimization, and testing implementation
More about this role
*Telecommuting permitted: work may be performed within normal commuting distance from the Red Hat, LLC office in Raleigh, NC.
Lead the creation and refinement of the overarching Konflux Performance Strategy, ensuring alignment with user expectations for stability, throughput and speed. Analyze Konflux user performance requirements and identify gaps in the current performance testing approach (covering areas like smoke, load, stress, scalability, endurance, resilience, network, crossarchitecture, and component-level testing).
- Assess the importance and ROI of different performance testing strategies and tools (e.g., k6, Locust, chaos engineering frameworks) for the Konflux ecosystem.
- Drive the definition of performance baselines, Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for Konflux, collaborating with stakeholders to ensure they meet business needs.
- Work closely with Konflux engineering, QE, SRE, and product management teams to embed performance considerations throughout the development lifecycle and gain buy-in for strategic initiatives.
- Define requirements for effective performance monitoring, observability (metrics, tracing, logging using tools...
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