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Staff Performance Engineer

Ironclad is the #1 contract lifecycle management platform for innovative companies.

Ironclad

Employee count: 201-500

Salary: 170k-210k USD

United States only

Ironclad is the #1 contract lifecycle management platform for innovative companies. Every company, in every country, in every industry runs on contracts, but managing these contracts slows companies down and costs them millions of dollars. L’Oréal, Staples, Mastercard, and other leading innovators use Ironclad to collaborate and negotiate on contracts, accelerate contracting while maintaining compliance, and turn contracts into critical carriers of operational business intelligence. It’s the only platform flexible enough to handle every type of contract workflow, whether a sales agreement, an HR agreement or a complex NDA.

Ironclad is writing the narrative that shows how beautiful and functional contracting will change business. We’re a leader in the Forrester Wave for Contract Lifecycle Management. We have been recognized as a Fortune Great Place to Work for four consecutive years. Our innovation and work culture have been recognized by Glassdoor's Best Places to Work 2023, Forbes’ 50 Most Promising AI Companies, Wing Venture Capital's Enterprise Tech 30, and Gartner's Magic Quadrant. We work in a highly collaborative environment, and strive to foster a positive, inclusive culture. We’re backed by leading investors like Accel, Y Combinator, Sequoia, and BOND. For more information, visit www.ironcladapp.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.


Performance Engineering @ Ironclad

As a Performance Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring Ironclad’s platform remains fast, scalable, and reliable as we continue to grow at an incredible pace. With our fast-paced release cycle and an influx of large-scale enterprise customers, our goal is to maintain development velocity while proactively identifying and eliminating performance bottlenecks. You’ll have the opportunity to shape performance strategy from the ground up, build and maintain performance frameworks, analyze system behavior under load, and work cross-functionally to integrate performance-first principles throughout the product development lifecycle.

We are seeking a Senior/Staff Performance Engineer to enhance performance, scalability, and reliability, collaborating with development teams to eliminate bottlenecks, execute performance tests, and drive optimizations. This growing team offers high impact, visibility, and autonomy as we tackle complex scalability challenges and optimize performance amid rapid expansion. With big technical problems ahead, your work will directly shape how Ironclad scales. If you thrive in a high-impact, performance-driven culture and value collaboration, let’s talk!

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design and execute performance tests using various tools and techniques to identify bottlenecks and performance issues.

  • Own end-to-end performance testing, including strategy, requirements gathering, test planning, scripting, execution, monitoring, and results analysis.

  • Collaborate with engineering teams to diagnose and resolve performance issues across application code, infrastructure, and database layers.

  • Monitor and analyze performance metrics using tools like Datadog or New Relic, and provide optimization recommendations.

  • Develop and maintain performance testing frameworks, and coverage scripts, ensuring scalability and automation.

  • Conduct in-depth performance analysis and tuning, participate in code reviews, and offer deep performance insights.

  • Work with stakeholders to understand and establish performance requirements, refine performance benchmarks, KPIs, and SLAs.

  • Stay up to date with performance best practices and emerging technologies to continuously improve system reliability.

  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with an aptitude for learning new technologies

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in performance engineering with a strong focus on optimization, scalability, and system reliability.

  • Hands-on expertise in performance testing methodologies, including load, stress, chaos, and capacity testing.

  • Proficiency in performance testing tools such as JMeter, K6, Gatling, Locust, or other industry-standard frameworks.

  • Deep experience in performance tuning and optimization across databases, applications, and infrastructure.

  • Strong system design principles and proficiency in programming/scripting with Java, JavaScript, or TypeScript.

  • Hands-on experience with performance monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, and Grafana.

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to quickly identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.

  • Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.

  • Self-driven and adaptable, able to work independently and collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, high-impact environment.

    Benefits:

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance

  • 401k

  • Wellness reimbursement

  • Take what you need vacation policy

  • Generous parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers

Base Salary Range: $170,000 - $210,000

The base salary range represents the minimum and maximum of the salary range for this position based at our San Francisco headquarters. The actual base salary offered for this position will depend on numerous factors, including individual proficiency, anticipated performance, and the location of the selected candidate. Our base salary is just one component of Ironclad’s competitive total rewards package, which also includes equity awards (a new hire grant, along with opportunities for additional awards throughout your tenure), competitive health and wellness benefits, and a commitment to career growth and development.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Salary: 170k-210k USD

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Ironclad is the #1 contract lifecycle management platform for innovative companies. L’Oréal, Staples, Mastercard, and other leading innovators use Ironclad to collaborate and negotiate on contracts, accelerate contracting while maintaining compliance, and turn contracts into critical carriers of operational business intelligence. It’s the only platform flexible enough to handle every type of contract workflow, whether a sales agreement, an HR agreement or a complex NDA. The company was named one of the 20 Rising Stars on the Forbes 2019 Cloud 100 list, and is backed by leading investors like Accel, Y Combinator, Sequoia, and Bond. For more information, visit www.ironcladapp.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

You'll be joining a growing and well-funded team coming from places like Palantir, Box, DocuSign, Salesforce, and Harvard Law. This is a chance to bring a two-thousand-year-old profession into the digital age, ship a product to paying users that can’t live without it and help write the sales playbook for the next billion-dollar vertical.

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401(k) to help you invest in your future.

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Disability insurance so you don't have to worry.

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We bond outside of work over games, happy hours, concerts, and more.

Healthcare benefits

Great health care insurance + health savings account (HSA) + flexible spending account (FSA)

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201-500 employees

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Jason Boehmig

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