At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market. What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture. Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform. Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals, and we love celebratingour wins – big and small. Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and let’s build what’s next - together! Join the GPTO Engineering organization, where you will report to the Director of Engineering. Our team is on a mission to provide the unshakeable foundation of trust, security, and scale for the entire Anaplan ecosystem. We empower our internal developers and external partners to build with speed and confidence. Your Impact
Lead the technical vision and execution for the performance, scalability, and resiliency testing of our core capabilities, playing a vital role across Data Integrity and Pipeline Performance Initiatives. - Architect, design, and build the next generation of highly available, secure, and scalable that ensure the robustness of our platform's backbone services. - Collaborate with architects and Product Partners to align with long-term direction, applying a product mindset to ensure platform scale meets business and customer needs. - Set the standard for through hands-on leadership in test architecture, system profiling, bottleneck analysis, and strategic guidance across our backend technology stack (Java, Kotlin, Go, .NET). - Mentor QA and software engineers across teams through performance test design input, framework reviews, and best practice sharing for highly concurrent systems. - Champion innovation in, and overall platform scalability features. - Drive technical planning for scale initiatives, shape our long-term performance strategy, and lead critical incident retrospectives to ensure continuous improvement in system reliability.
performance testing frameworks and load-generation strategies
capacity planning and performance optimization patterns
performance engineering excellence
performance testing, synthetic data generation, chaos engineering
Your Qualifications
A seasoned Performance/QA professional with 12+ years of experience building, testing, and scaling complex platform, infrastructure, or data-centric systems. - Deep, hands-on expertise in designing, developing, and implementing advanced performance testing frameworks (e.g., k6, Gatling, JMeter) for modern back-end applications and distributed systems using RESTful APIs and event-driven patterns. - Extensive experience with application performance monitoring (APM) and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana) to identify memory leaks, thread contention, and system bottlenecks. - Extensive experience with K8s, public and private cloud; multi-region, multi-tenant topologies from a load, stress, and scalability perspective. - Proven experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and high-velocity release workflows, with a strong focus on integrating automated performance gates throughout the pipeline. - Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills, with a track record of influencing engineering and product strategy to embed performance practices at every stage. Preferred Skills
Proven experience influencing architecture and platform scale strategy. - Experience integratingsynthetic data generation tools (e.g., Tonic AI, Clearbox AI, NV Nemo) to populate environments for large-scale load testing. - Familiarity with leveragingAI/ML tools and assistants (e.g., Cursor) for test script generation and automation framework enhancement. - Experience scaling quality efforts under high throughput demands and complex system interactions without sacrificing engineering velocity. - Comfortable navigating globally distributed teams and asynchronous collaboration in a senior architectural leadership role. Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)
We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce, enhances trust with our partners and customers, and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging aren’t just words on paper – this is what drives our innovation, it’s how we connect, and it contributes to what makes us a market leader. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day! We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. Fraud Recruitment Disclaimer
It has come to our attention that fraudulent and fictitious job opportunities are being circulated on the Internet. Prospective candidates are being contacted by certain individuals, mainly through telephone calls, emails and correspondence, claiming they are representatives of Anaplan. The main purpose of these correspondences and announcements is to obtain privileged information from individuals.
