Performance QA Engineer

About the role

Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we go fearlessly forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands.

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)