Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.
Ready to take your career global?
Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Senior Performance Platform Engineer to join our ever-evolving engineering team and help shape the future of performance testing across multiple business platforms. In this role, you’ll own and evolve the shared performance testing platform that enables our teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and high-performing solutions to clients around the world.
- Own the architecture, roadmap, and continuous evolution of the shared performance testing platform, supporting Genius Enterprise and multiple POS business branches.
- Design, develop, and maintain reusable performance testing components, including frameworks, simulations, tooling, reporting capabilities, and CI/CD integrations that drive consistency and efficiency across teams.
- Build and enhance performance test orchestration solutions using Gatling, Locust, Python, Scala, Groovy, Jenkins, Docker, and AWS technologies.
- Establish and promote engineering standards, best practices, and governance through technical leadership, framework reviews, mentorship, and collaboration with Automation Engineers.
- Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve complex platform, environment, and performance-related issues through root cause analysis and data-driven decision-making.
- Partner with business branches and stakeholders to gather requirements, prioritize platform enhancements, support onboarding initiatives, and ensure the platform meets evolving business needs.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with hands-on involvement in performance engineering, load testing, or test automation environments.
- Strong programming expertise in Python and the ability or willingness to work across additional technologies such as Scala and Groovy.
- Experience designing and testing distributed, cloud-hosted systems, including proficiency with REST APIs and modern service architectures.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, and cloud-native infrastructure concepts.
- Proven experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, TeamCity, or similar platforms, including pipeline scripting and automation.
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycles, testing methodologies, engineering best practices, and continuous delivery processes.
- Excellent systems-thinking skills with the ability to design scalable, reusable solutions that support multiple teams and products.
- Strong communication, planning, estimation, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to work independently and influence technical direction.
- Experience building, maintaining, or scaling shared internal platforms or frameworks used by multiple engineering teams.
- Expertise with observability and analytics tools such as Grafana, Kibana, or similar monitoring platforms for performance analysis and reporting.
- Experience within POS, retail, payments, or other enterprise-scale distributed system environments.
- Hands-on experience across various performance testing methodologies, including load, stress, spike, soak, and endurance testing.
- Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership without formal people management responsibilities.
- Strong written communication, presentation, and technical documentation skills.
- A mindset that reflects our values:
- Think like a client: Understand business objectives and deliver solutions that enable exceptional customer experiences and system reliability.
- Act like an owner: Take accountability for platform quality, proactively solve problems, and continuously improve performance engineering practices.
- Win as one team: Collaborate across teams, business units, and geographies to create shared success and scalable outcomes.
Our inclusive and global teams win together every day. As part of our Performance Engineering organization, you’ll work with talented engineers who are passionate about building scalable tools, frameworks, and testing capabilities that support mission-critical payment and commerce platforms. You’ll have the opportunity to influence engineering standards, enable multiple business units, and collaborate with experts across a global organization.
The people, the energy, the connections, it’s unmatched. Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.
What makes a Globalpayer?Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner, and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative, always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, embrace diverse perspectives, and strive for excellence in everything we do.
*Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Globalpayer. Apply now to take your career global.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Hands-on experience with performance engineering, load testing, or test automation environments
- Strong programming expertise in Python
- Ability or willingness to work with Scala and Groovy
- Experience designing and testing distributed, cloud-hosted systems
- Proficiency with REST APIs and modern service architectures
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, and cloud-native infrastructure concepts
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, TeamCity, or similar platforms
- Pipeline scripting and automation experience
- Understanding of software development lifecycles, testing methodologies, engineering best practices, and continuous delivery processes
- Systems-thinking skills for designing scalable, reusable solutions
- Strong communication, planning, estimation, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work independently and influence technical direction
- Experience building, maintaining, or scaling shared internal platforms or frameworks
- Expertise with observability and analytics tools such as Grafana or Kibana
- Experience in POS, retail, payments, or enterprise-scale distributed systems
- Experience with load, stress, spike, soak, and endurance testing methodologies
- Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership
- Strong written communication, presentation, and technical documentation skills
Global Payments Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Global Payments and has not been reviewed or approved by Global Payments.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage includes medical, dental, vision, and employee assistance programs, and is commonly regarded as a strong component of the total package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs feature a company 401(k) match and an employee stock purchase plan, which are positioned as meaningful parts of overall rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid holidays, PTO, and parental/family‑friendly policies are part of the offering, contributing to perceived overall value even when cash pay is seen as average.
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What We Do
Global Payments (NYSE: GPN) is a Fortune 500 payments technology company, delivering the leading complete worldwide commerce ecosystem. Our unique, connected infrastructure unifies every aspect of commerce, from issuer solutions to payments, and the innovative software that delivers seamless customer experiences. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we’re a worldwide team of over 24,000 people—including local experts on the ground in nearly 40 countries. Together, we support thousands of businesses across more than 100 industries. Empowering commerce for everyone.
