Staff Performance Engineer, Ironclad
$170-210k
Salary is applicable to San Francisco based candidates only and may vary on further locations; + Equity
Enterprise software for managing contracts
Open for applications
Enterprise software for managing contracts
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$170-210k
Salary is applicable to San Francisco based candidates only and may vary on further locations; + Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To power the world’s contracts.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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!
- 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
Our take
Business contracting is often inefficient and messy, with approvals required from various stakeholders and many processes still paper-based. Ironclad is a platform that digitises, automates, and streamlines contract workflows, allowing legal teams to focus on legal work rather than paperwork. Ironclad’s platform features collaborative tools that facilitate business operations and extract and catalog contract metadata, making information easier to access and act upon. Its enterprise customers include Dropbox, Mastercard, Pixar, Fox, and L’Oréal.
Despite its success, Ironclad faces competition in the $3 billion contract lifecycle management industry from major players like DocuSign and emerging ones like Contractbook. The company recently announced Ironclad Signature, marking its entry into the $25 billion eSignature market. The new feature speeds up the signature process by an estimated 80% and provides summaries and approval histories to users. This new tool is expected to strengthen Ironclad's position in the sell-side contract lifecycle management market.
Additionally, Ironclad introduced value-based pricing, charging only for completed, signed agreements, unlike other providers who charge for every signature packet sent out. Ironclad, backed by investors like Accel, Sequoia, Y Combinator, and BOND, remains committed to innovating and maintaining its leadership in the contract lifecycle management space.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2022
$150m
SERIES E
Dec 2020
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $334.1m
Company benefits
- Dental, and vision insurance
- 401K
- Wellness reimbursement
- Flexible vacation policy
- Generous parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Cai GoGwilt
(CTO & Chief Architect)Studied HSPS at Cambridge, and Computer Science at MIT. Was a Summer Technology Analayst at Goldman Sachs. Worked as a Research Assistant at MIT. Was a Software Engineer at Palantir.
Jason Boehmig
(CEO)Former Corporate Lawyer at Fenwick and Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame before founding Ironclad in 2014.
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