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FloQast

Senior Performance Engineer

1 week ago• Pune, India

About FloQast

FloQast is the leading Accounting Transformation Platform created by accountants for accountants. We help accounting teams automate and streamline financial close, compliance, and accounting operations, enabling organizations to work more efficiently and accurately.

As a Senior Performance Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of FloQast's cloud-based applications and services. You will partner closely with Engineering, SRE, Product, and Quality Engineering teams to identify performance bottlenecks, establish performance benchmarks, and drive performance improvements across our platform.

What You'll Do

  • Design, develop, and execute comprehensive performance, load, stress, endurance, and scalability testing strategies for distributed cloud applications.

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    Define performance goals, SLAs, and success criteria for critical platform services and customer-facing applications.

  • Build and maintain automated performance testing frameworks and pipelines integrated with CI/CD workflows.

  • Analyze application, database, API, and infrastructure performance metrics to identify bottlenecks and recommend optimizations.

  • Collaborate with Software Engineers, Architects, and SRE teams to improve system scalability, resiliency, and efficiency.

  • Conduct capacity planning exercises and provide data-driven recommendations for infrastructure scaling.

  • Create performance dashboards, monitoring solutions, and reports to provide visibility into system health and trends.

  • Validate performance impacts of new features, architecture changes, and production releases.

  • Lead root cause analysis for performance-related incidents and proactively identify areas for improvement.

  • Mentor engineers and establish performance engineering best practices across the organization.

What You'll Bring

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

  • 7+ years of experience in Performance Engineering, Performance Testing, or Site Reliability Engineering.

  • Strong hands-on experience with performance testing tools such as:

  • JMeter

  • Gatling

  • LoadRunner

  • k6

  • Locust

  • Experience testing high-scale SaaS platforms, web applications, APIs, and microservices architectures.

  • Strong understanding of:

  • Distributed systems

  • Cloud-native architectures

  • Performance tuning methodologies

  • Scalability patterns

  • Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS.

  • Proficiency in scripting or programming languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, or Go.

  • Strong knowledge of SQL and database performance tuning concepts.

  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, Splunk, or similar.

  • Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.

  • Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

FloQast is the leading AI-powered Accounting Transformation Platform, uniquely built by former accountants for accountants. We automate complex, recurring accounting workflows—transforming preparers into strategic reviewers and relieving accountants from tedious manual work. Our cloud-based solution is trusted by over 3,500 world-class accounting teams, including Lululemon, Doordash, and the MLB, to drive collaboration and financial accuracy. Driven by a mission to continuously elevate the profession, FloQast is redefining both the practice and the perception of accounting on a global scale. 
 
Our values act as a guiding compass, shaping every decision we make, and are non-negotiable, particularly in our hiring process. Alongside our employees, partners, and customers, we embody these values every day:
Unwaveringly Authentic 
Ambitious with Integrity
Empowered to Grow
Committed to Collaboration
Customer Obsessed in All Ways
 
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FloQast, Inc is committed to operating fair and unbiased recruitment procedures allowing all applicants an equal opportunity for employment, free from discrimination on the basis of religion, race, sex, age, sexual orientation, disability, color, ethnic or national origin, or any other classification as may be protected by applicable law. We aim to recruit the right people for the jobs we have to offer, and to assess applications on the basis of relevant skills, education, and experience. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and strive to provide a professional and welcoming workplace for all employees.
Client-provided location(s): Pune, India
Job ID: fd8b04f0-924e-4949-9ad2-28cd1833f521
Employment Type: OTHER
Posted: 2026-07-01T11:18:30

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA

  • Parental Benefits

    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave

  • Work Flexibility

    • Remote Work Opportunities

  • Office Life and Perks

    • Company Outings
    • Casual Dress
    • Happy Hours
    • Snacks
    • Some Meals Provided

  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Leave of Absence
    • Paid Holidays
    • Unlimited Paid Time Off
    • Paid Vacation

  • Financial and Retirement

    • Relocation Assistance
    • Performance Bonus
    • Company Equity
    • 401(K)

  • Professional Development

    • Promote From Within
    • Shadowing Opportunities
    • Access to Online Courses

  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program