Performance QA Engineer
Location: Remote, Portugal
Department: Quality Assurance 1001154
Veeam, the #1 global market leader in data resilience, believes businesses should control all their data whenever and wherever they need it. Veeam provides data resilience through data backup, data recovery, data portability, data security, and data intelligence. Based in Seattle, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we move forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands. The future of data resilience is here - go fearlessly forward with us.
About the Role
The Veeam Quality Assurance team invites you to work on Veeam products with Veeam QA professionals in the Lisbon R&D office.
As a Performance QA Engineer, you will work on large‑scale, real‑world backup and data protection scenarios used by enterprises worldwide. Your work will directly influence the scalability, reliability, and performance of Veeam products running in some of the most demanding environments.
What You'll Do
- Design and execute performance, load, and scalability testing for major components of Veeam products (from requirement analysis and lab design to test execution and results analysis)
- Build and maintain realistic enterprise‑grade test environments, including large infrastructures and complex topologies
- Identify performance bottlenecks and system limits, and work closely with developers, functional QA, and product managers to resolve them
- Participate in root cause analysis of performance issues reported by Technical Support and customers
- Own and evolve performance test labs: environment creation, configuration, monitoring, and collaboration with IT teams
What You'll Bring
- Technical education or a strong, hands‑on passion for systems and performance
- 1–2 years of experience in performance and/or load testing (or a strong practical background in system performance)
- Ability to analyze test results and clearly identify bottlenecks, limits, and performance risks
- Solid knowledge of Windows and/or Linux at an advanced user or system administration level
- Good understanding of system internals: CPU, memory, storage, networking
- Strong analytical mindset, attention to detail, and structured thinking
- Motivation to grow as a performance and scalability engineer
- English proficiency for daily communication within international teams
Bonus Skills
- Experience with databases (Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL), including profiling and performance analysis
- Scripting, test automation, or infrastructure deployment experience
- Understanding of virtualization platforms and large virtual environments
- Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud)
- Experience with Python
- Familiarity with Ansible, Terraform, or similar infrastructure‑as‑code tools
What You'll Get
- 24 annual vacation days, plus 4 extra global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
- Private medical, dental, and optical insurance for employees and dependents
- Life and disability insurance worth 2x gross annual salary
- Monthly meal allowance of €10.46 per working day
- Opportunities to learn and grow through on-demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops and learning events like our annual Global Day of Learning
Please note: If the applicant is permanently present outside of Portugal, Veeam reserves the right to refuse to consider the application for a job. Remote work is only possible in case the employee is located in Portugal.
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