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Associate Performance Engineer

Here is the whole job, in plain words. What it is, a real day, what you decide, how you're judged, how people get here and where they go next. Then the part no course gives you: twelve AI tutors who learn your work.

  • Experience bandEntry Level (0-2 years)
  • Direct reportsNo direct reports
  • Reports toPerformance Engineer or Senior Performance Engineer
  • UK framework levelUsually someone starting out, or keeping a process running

Also advertised as Junior Performance Engineer · Performance Test Analyst (Entry) · QA Performance Specialist (Entry)

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1What this role really is

This role is all about getting your hands dirty with performance testing. You'll be the person running the tests that others have built, gathering the data, and helping us figure out if our software can handle the real world. It's a foundational role, meaning you'll learn the ropes from the ground up, understanding how to spot a slow system before it breaks. Think of yourself as a detective, but for software speed.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Load Testing Frameworks (e.g., Gatling, Apache JMeter)Basic

Executing existing test scripts, making minor parameter changes (e.g., changing endpoints or test data files), and running tests as instructed. You'll be comfortable with the command line or GUI to start and stop tests.

APM & Observability (e.g., Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic)Basic

Navigating pre-built dashboards to view basic metrics like CPU usage, memory consumption, and application response times for specific services during a test run. You'll be able to identify obvious spikes or drops.

Infrastructure Monitoring (e.g., Prometheus & Grafana)Basic

Viewing and understanding existing Grafana dashboards to check system health (e.g., server CPU, disk I/O) during tests. You might perform simple PromQL queries to check a specific metric if guided.

Log Aggregation (e.g., ELK Stack, Splunk, Loki)Basic

Using Kibana or Splunk to search for specific errors, warnings, or transaction IDs within logs to help troubleshoot issues identified during testing. You'll be able to apply basic filters.

Frontend Performance Tools (e.g., Lighthouse, WebPageTest)Basic

Running Lighthouse audits on web pages and understanding the top-level scores (Performance, Accessibility). You'll be able to identify obvious issues like very large images or slow loading resources.

Version Control (e.g., Git)Basic

Cloning repositories, pulling the latest changes, and committing your own minor script modifications or documentation updates. You'll be comfortable with basic Git commands.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choiceComing inWhere you are nowThe step above
Test Script ModificationNo independent modifications. Propose minor changes (e.g., updating an endpoint) to manager for review and approval.Routine modifications to existing scripts (e.g., data correlation, parameterisation) within established frameworks. Major changes require peer review.Design and implement complex test scenarios from scratch. Approve modifications made by junior engineers. Decide on framework usage.
Performance Issue DiagnosisIdentify obvious symptoms (e.g., high error rate, slow response time). Escalate to manager with collected data.Independently diagnose common bottlenecks (e.g., database queries, network latency) using standard tools. Propose initial solutions.Perform deep-dive root cause analysis for complex, multi-system issues. Recommend architectural changes or code fixes.
Tool SelectionUse pre-selected tools as instructed.Research and propose alternative tools for specific problems, with manager approval.Evaluate, select, and champion new performance engineering tools for the team or department.
Test Environment ConfigurationFollow detailed instructions to configure existing test environments.Independently configure and troubleshoot standard test environments. Propose minor improvements to setup scripts.Design and automate the provisioning of complex, production-like test environments.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Test Execution Accuracy
Running performance tests exactly as specified in the test plan, ensuring all parameters and configurations are correct.
Target · 99% accuracy in test setup and execution

If a test plan says to run a Gatling script with 500 concurrent users for 30 minutes, you'll set it up and run it precisely that way, without missing a parameter or misconfiguring the environment. A mistake, like running it for 20 minutes instead, would count against this.

Defect Validity Rate
The percentage of performance defects you log that are accepted by the development team as valid and reproducible issues.
Target · >90% of logged defects accepted

You spot a high p99 latency on a specific API endpoint during a test, log it with clear steps and evidence. If the dev team confirms it's a real bug, that's a valid defect. If they can't reproduce it or say it's 'expected behaviour', it's not. We want you to find real issues, not ghost problems.

Report Timeliness
Delivering standardised test summary reports within the agreed timeframe after a test run is completed.
Target · Reports delivered within 2 business hours of test completion

You finish a load test at 3 PM on a Tuesday. The expectation is that the basic summary report, using our standard template, is in the hands of your manager by 5 PM that same day, or by 10 AM on Wednesday if it was a late finish.

Monitoring Setup Adherence
Correctly configuring basic monitoring dashboards and alerts as per instructions for new test environments.
Target · 100% adherence to monitoring setup guides

When a new test environment is spun up, you're given a checklist for setting up a basic Grafana dashboard and a few Prometheus alerts. You'll need to follow that guide exactly, ensuring all specified metrics are visible and alerts are correctly configured. Missing a key metric would be a miss here.

Learning & Application
Actively seeking to understand new tools, concepts, and methodologies, and applying that learning in your daily tasks.
  • Asking thoughtful questions during code reviews or team meetings
  • successfully applying a new command you learned
  • taking notes during training sessions and referring to them
  • sharing a small 'aha!' moment with the team after figuring something out.
Adherence to Standards
Consistently following established processes, naming conventions, and documentation guidelines.
  • Your test scripts and reports consistently use the agreed-upon naming conventions
  • you update documentation sections when you complete a task
  • your work is easily understood by others because it follows our internal standards.
Proactive Questioning
Asking clarifying questions when instructions aren't clear, rather than making assumptions that could lead to errors.
  • You'll say, 'Just to be clear, when you say 'high load', do you mean 1000 users or 10,000?' or 'I'm not sure which data set to use here, could you point me to the right one?' before starting a task
  • you raise potential issues or ambiguities early on.
Team Collaboration
Working effectively with your immediate team, asking for help when stuck, and offering support where you can.
  • You respond quickly to team messages
  • you actively participate in stand-ups
  • you're happy to pair with a colleague to learn or help out
  • you're not afraid to admit you're stuck and ask for guidance.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy
Learning New Technical Skills

You'll be excited to pick up new scripting languages, learn how to navigate different monitoring dashboards, and understand the ins and outs of various profiling tools. Every day will bring a chance to add a new tool to your belt.

Spending your lunch break watching a tutorial on PromQL queries or asking a senior engineer how eBPF works, then trying it out on a non-production system.

Solving Puzzles

You'll enjoy the challenge of figuring out why a system is slow. It's like being a detective, piecing together clues from logs, metrics, and traces to uncover the culprit. Even at this level, you'll be contributing to that investigation.

Being given a test result showing high CPU usage and then, with guidance, digging into Grafana to see if you can spot any correlating spikes in other metrics.

Contributing to Product Quality

You'll feel a sense of satisfaction knowing that your work directly helps ensure our products are fast and reliable for users. You're a key part of preventing those frustrating 'spinning wheel' moments.

Seeing a feature you tested go live and knowing your efforts helped ensure it performs well, avoiding customer complaints about slowness.

What frustrates people
  • Being told to 'just run a quick test' when you know it takes hours of setup.
  • Waiting for test environments to be provisioned or fixed, which can delay your work.
  • Dealing with messy or incomplete test data that makes your job harder.
  • Having to explain basic performance concepts multiple times to different people.
  • Finding a performance issue only for it to be deprioritised because a new feature is 'more important'.
What this role does not give you
  • Immediate high-level strategic influence or decision-making authority.
  • Full autonomy to choose your own projects or tools without guidance.
  • A guarantee that every performance issue you find will be fixed immediately.
  • A role focused purely on coding or feature development.

6Who you work with

Your work ensures that the software we build can actually handle the load our customers throw at it. If you miss something, it could mean slow response times, errors, or even crashes for our users. On the flip side, by doing your job well, you directly contribute to a smooth, reliable experience for everyone who uses our products, which ultimately keeps our customers happy and our business running.

Inside the business
  • Your direct manager (Performance Engineer)
  • The wider Performance Engineering team
  • Junior Software Developers (the ones whose code you're testing)
  • QA Engineers (who focus on functional testing)

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

  • A foundational understanding of computer science principles, perhaps from a degree or self-study.
  • Basic scripting skills in at least one language (e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript) to understand and make minor edits to test scripts.
  • Familiarity with command-line interfaces (CLI) and basic Linux commands.
  • A genuine interest in performance, scalability, and how software systems behave under load.
  • The ability to follow detailed instructions and a willingness to learn from feedback.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Advanced Load Testing Scripting

You'll move beyond just executing. As systems become more complex, you'll need to create more realistic and dynamic test scenarios that mimic real user behaviour, not just simple 'hit this endpoint'.

Dynamic Data Correlation · Parameterisation · Custom Logic & Assertions · Distributed Load Generation

  • This week: Ask your manager for an existing complex script and try to understand its flow.
  • This month: Pick one feature (e.g., data correlation) and try to implement it in a simple test script.
  • Month 2: Work with a senior engineer to refactor a small part of an existing script to make it more robust.
  • Month 3: Propose a minor improvement to a test script that you've been running regularly.

Quick win: Try to identify a repetitive part of an existing script and think about how you could make it more dynamic with simple parameterisation.

Deep-Dive APM Analysis

As you gain experience, you won't just look at dashboards. You'll need to trace transactions, understand code-level performance, and build custom views to get to the real root cause of issues.

Distributed Tracing · Code-Level Profiling (APM) · Custom Dashboard Creation · Alerting Configuration

  • This week: Spend time exploring the 'trace' view in our APM tool for a known slow transaction.
  • This month: Try to build a very simple custom dashboard in Datadog or Dynatrace with 2-3 key metrics.
  • Month 2: Ask a developer to walk you through how their code shows up in the APM tool.
  • Month 3: Propose a new alert based on a performance issue you've observed during testing.

Quick win: Just clicking around the APM tool beyond the main dashboard and exploring different views will be a great start.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Participating in online courses or tutorials on performance testing tools (e.g., free JMeter courses, Gatling documentation).
  • Attending local tech meetups or webinars focused on software performance or observability.
  • Contributing to open-source projects, especially those related to testing or monitoring.
  • Reading blogs and articles from industry experts on performance engineering best practices.
  • Building small personal projects and intentionally trying to optimise their performance.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: Prompt Engineering for Technical Queries

AI assistants are becoming incredibly powerful for tasks like summarising logs, explaining code, or even generating basic test data. Learning how to ask the right questions (prompting) will make you significantly more efficient.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

Your PlanIllustration

Built for Associate Performance Engineer

2 units that map to this job, from the qualifications that cover it.

  1. Performing Low Level Programming for Engineering SoftwareETC Awards Limited · covers 6 of 10 standardsLevel 3
  2. How to Assess the Performance and Condition of Instrument and Control SystemsGQA Qualifications Limited · covers 2 of 10 standardsLevel 3
These are the real units behind this job, in the order they rank for it. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

Prompt Engineering for Technical Queries

AI assistants are becoming incredibly powerful for tasks like summarising logs, explaining code, or even generating basic test data. Learning how to ask the right questions (prompting) will make you significantly more efficient.

  • Clear & Concise Prompting
  • Context Provision
  • Output Validation
  • Iterative Prompting

Understanding AI in Observability

Our monitoring tools are getting smarter. They're starting to use AI to predict issues, spot anomalies, and even suggest root causes. Understanding how this works will help you interpret the tools' insights better.

  • Anomaly Detection
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Correlation Engines
  • AIOps Concepts

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • Basic Workload Modelling Concepts
  • Root Cause Analysis (Conceptual)
  • Performance Budgeting (Awareness)
  • Basic Statistical Awareness

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

  1. 1

    Graduate Software Engineer (with performance interest)

    0-1 year in a graduate programme, then transition to this role.

    Skills to master

    • Basic coding/scripting, understanding of software architecture, debugging skills, a foundational interest in system behaviour under load.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Successfully completed university projects with a focus on optimisation or scalability.
    • Demonstrated ability to write clean, maintainable code.
    • Expressed a clear desire to specialise in performance rather than general development.
  2. 2

    Junior QA Tester

    1-2 years in a functional QA role, then transition.

    Skills to master

    • Test case design, bug reporting, understanding of the software development lifecycle, familiarity with testing tools, a keen eye for detail.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Consistently delivered high-quality functional test results.
    • Proactively identified performance-related issues during functional testing.
    • Showed initiative in learning about non-functional requirements like speed and stability.
  3. 3

    Technical Support Analyst

    1-2 years in a technical support role, then transition.

    Skills to master

    • Troubleshooting customer issues, understanding system logs, basic networking concepts, excellent problem-solving skills, customer empathy.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Successfully resolved complex technical issues for customers.
    • Demonstrated ability to diagnose problems by analysing logs and system metrics.
    • Expressed an interest in preventing performance issues rather than just reacting to them.

11Where this role leads

The long view:Your journey starts here, but where it goes is really up to you. We'll give you the tools, the challenges, and the support to build a fantastic career in performance engineering. The sky's the limit if you're willing to learn and push yourself.

Pay & demand

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The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Associate Performance Engineer is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

Where it leads

Roles this leads to

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

…and nine more, matched to you after your first chat. Meet all twelve

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13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

Performing Low Level Programming for Engineering SoftwareLevel 3

Applied to your work in Associate Performance Engineer

This unit aims to equip learners with the ability to perform low level programming for engineering software applications, including developing, testing, and debugging code. Learners will demonstrate the ability to write efficient and optimised code and integrate it with higher-level components. Furthermore, they will understand the principles of low level programming languages and their applications in engineering.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
  5. Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

DemonstrateIllustration

Evidenced on your work in Associate Performance Engineer

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

  • Test Execution AccuracyRunning performance tests exactly as specified in the test plan, ensuring all parameters and configurations are correct.If a test plan says to run a Gatling script with 500 concurrent users for 30 minutes, you'll set it up and run it precisely that way, without missing a parameter or misconfiguring the environment. A mistake, like running it for 20 minutes instead, would count against this.99% accuracy in test setup and execution
  • Defect Validity RateThe percentage of performance defects you log that are accepted by the development team as valid and reproducible issues.You spot a high p99 latency on a specific API endpoint during a test, log it with clear steps and evidence. If the dev team confirms it's a real bug, that's a valid defect. If they can't reproduce it or say it's 'expected behaviour', it's not. We want you to find real issues, not ghost problems.>90% of logged defects accepted
  • Report TimelinessDelivering standardised test summary reports within the agreed timeframe after a test run is completed.You finish a load test at 3 PM on a Tuesday. The expectation is that the basic summary report, using our standard template, is in the hands of your manager by 5 PM that same day, or by 10 AM on Wednesday if it was a late finish.Reports delivered within 2 business hours of test completion
  • Monitoring Setup AdherenceCorrectly configuring basic monitoring dashboards and alerts as per instructions for new test environments.When a new test environment is spun up, you're given a checklist for setting up a basic Grafana dashboard and a few Prometheus alerts. You'll need to follow that guide exactly, ensuring all specified metrics are visible and alerts are correctly configured. Missing a key metric would be a miss here.100% adherence to monitoring setup guides
These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Associate Performance Engineer to Performance Engineer (L2), and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 2 · in progressAI Fluency→ Performance Engineer (L2)→ your design
Where this takes you

Your journey starts here, but where it goes is really up to you. We'll give you the tools, the challenges, and the support to build a fantastic career in performance engineering. The sky's the limit if you're willing to learn and push yourself.

See Your Progress GrowIllustration
Associate Performance Engineer
  • Basic Workload Modelling Concepts
  • Root Cause Analysis (Conceptual)
  • Performance Budgeting (Awareness)
  • Basic Statistical Awareness
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Associate Performance Engineer is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. Performance Engineer (L2)

    2-3 years in the Associate role.

    You'll move from executing pre-defined tests to independently owning the performance testing of specific features or smaller projects. You'll start identifying basic bottlenecks on your own.

    • Designing basic test scenarios from scratch.
    • Performing deep-dive analysis within APM tools.
    • Writing complex PromQL queries for custom dashboards.
    • Independently using profilers to diagnose common issues.
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be real, some parts of performance engineering can feel a bit repetitive, especially when you're starting out. But what if you could offload some of that grunt work to AI? Imagine spending less time on manual tasks and more time actually learning and digging into the interesting problems.

We're big believers in using AI to make our lives easier, not replace us. For an Associate Performance Engineer, that means AI can become your personal assistant, helping you with everything from understanding complex logs to drafting your reports. It's about getting to the 'aha!' moments faster.

Automated Script Generation (Basic)

AI can analyse simple traffic logs and help draft the basic structure of a Gatling or JMeter script for you. You'll still need to review and refine it, but it's a massive head start compared to writing from scratch. Think of it as having a coding buddy.

Log Analysis Assistant

Instead of manually sifting through thousands of log lines, you can feed chunks of logs into an AI tool. It'll help you quickly identify error patterns, spot unusual activity, or even summarise what happened during a specific time window, making your troubleshooting much faster.

Instant Knowledge Retrieval

Got a question about a specific tool, an old incident, or a team process? Our internal AI chatbot, trained on our documentation, can give you instant answers. No more endless searching through Confluence or Slack archives – just ask and get a concise summary.

Drafting Test Summaries

After a test run, AI can take your raw data (like a CSV of results or a screenshot of a dashboard) and help you draft an initial summary report. It'll pull out key metrics and even suggest initial observations, giving you a solid starting point to refine and add your insights.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become an Associate Performance Engineer?

Common routes in include Graduate Software Engineer (with performance interest) (0-1 year in a graduate programme, then transition to this role.), Junior QA Tester (1-2 years in a functional QA role, then transition.) and Technical Support Analyst (1-2 years in a technical support role, then transition.). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can an Associate Performance Engineer progress to?

This role can lead on to Performance Engineer (L2) (2-3 years in the Associate role.), depending on the skills you build.

What level is an Associate Performance Engineer in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 2 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for an Associate Performance Engineer?

Increasingly, Prompt Engineering for Technical Queries and Understanding AI in Observability. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows an Associate Performance Engineer, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

  • Searching and planning stay free. You only pay when you start learning.
  • Your credits are yours. Regulated, and they don't vanish when a subscription ends.
  • Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 10 national skill standards. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming an Associate Performance Engineer: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

A private tutor in the UK averages £35–40 an hour . Zavmo is £70/month.

A real plan on learn.zavmo.ai: Ofqual-regulated units, credits, and a three-month run at your own pace.
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15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 2

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Technical roles

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

The skills you'll build as a Performance Engineer are highly transferable. You could move into Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Architecture, Software Development (with a performance focus), or even Product Management for performance-critical systems in almost any tech-driven industry.

Not sure this is the right direction?

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