Senior Software Engineer - k6 Core

At k6, we build next-generation reliability testing tools for developers and DevOps engineers. We are pushing forward the state-of-the-art in our industry, creating open-source tools that have great developer experience and enable engineers to build reliable systems. k6 is an open-source tool that we built to reinvent the engineering principles around performance testing and enable engineers to build systems that scale. About the role You will be one of five developers and maintainers of k6, a modern open-source tool for performance testing, written in Go. k6 was released publicly in early 2017 and has already received over 26,800 stars on Github and has an active community of users and contributors. You will have a lot of influence on the project roadmap and will work with a high degree of autonomy, building and maintaining the tool. Your responsibilities will be to both write code, extend the functionality of k6, maintain the code base, interface with the user community (i.e. review patches) and potentially evangelize the tool. Your main, long-term goal will be to create the best possible tool and to get as many people as possible to use it. You may also be involved with the k6 cloud integration, a SaaS service built on top of k6. Specifically, the parts of the cloud service written in Go, that orchestrates a distributed k6 test across 17 data centers around the world.

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