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Vonage Applications
Our Applications business unit focuses on delivering a suite of advanced communication tools designed to enhance customer engagement. From cloud contact canters to feature-rich unified communications solutions, our Applications team is dedicated to providing businesses with the tools they need to streamline operations and improve customer experiences.
Why this role matters
Vonage operates high-availability, cloud-native telecom platforms that power real-time communications for global enterprises. As a Lead Performance Engineer, you will own the end-to-end performance engineering strategy, ensuring our systems can scale, endure, and recover under production-like conditions. Your work directly protects the reliability and quality of experience that our customers depend on every day.
Your key responsibilities
Define and lead the performance engineering strategy across high-availability, cloud-native telecom platforms.
Lead, train,



and coordinate a distributed guild of SDETs across multiple feature teams, guiding them to build, maintain, and execute performance scripts (k6) within their fractional sprint capacity.
Design, develop, and evolve scalable backend performance frameworks using k6, Python, Java, or TypeScript, focusing on APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
Implement and manage production traffic replay strategies (e.g., GoReplay) and complex multi-tenant test data generation to accurately recreate realistic production contention and load profiles.
Own and drive performance, load, stress, endurance, scalability, and resilience testing, including chaos engineering practices (e.g., using AWS Fault Injection Simulator).
Validate real-time communication systems, event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and high-throughput distributed systems under production-like conditions.
Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines, enabling continuous performance vali

📌 Lead Performance Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Vonage
📍 Bengaluru