Description

Job Title: Senior Performance Engineer

Job Type: Full-time

Location: Hybrid - Denver, CO (3 days on-site per week)

About CloudBees

CloudBees helps organizations build, run, and govern software factories, giving enterprises the confidence to ship software better, faster, and safer.

Writing code is no longer the bottleneck. Governing what reaches production and validating its impact is. As enterprises adopt agentic coding, software is created faster than most teams can review, secure, and validate. Without consistent governance, organizations risk shipping code they cannot explain, audit, or trust.

CloudBees addresses this challenge without asking teams to replace the tools they already use. Across every toolchain a customer runs, CloudBees makes each change, human or AI, visible, auditable, and accountable before it reaches production. CloudBees Unify is the product behind this: a governance layer, with context and control-plane capabilities, that enforces consistent policy and evidence across every tool, team, and workflow.

Founded in 2010, CloudBees is backed by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bridgepoint Capital, HSBC, Golub Capital, Delta-v Capital, Matrix Partners, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Visit us at www.cloudbees.com.

About the Role

CloudBees is evolving its quality engineering model around automated testing, and this role will help define how performance, scalability, and reliability are engineered into our products from the start. As a Senior Performance Engineer, you will build performance testing as code, establish measurable baselines and quality gates, and partner with engineering teams to identify and resolve bottlenecks before they reach customers. You will combine hands-on software engineering, systems thinking, and production telemetry to help CloudBees ship software faster without compromising trust, resilience, or customer experience.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

Design and own the performance engineering strategy for the products and distributed services in your domain.
Build and maintain automated load, stress, spike, soak, scalability, and resilience tests as version-controlled code.
Integrate performance tests, thresholds, and regression detection into CI/CD workflows at the appropriate stage of the delivery process.
Partner with service owners and SRE to define meaningful performance baselines, service-level objectives, and release criteria across latency, throughput, error rates, resource use, and scalability.
Diagnose performance bottlenecks using observability data, profiling, tracing, logs, metrics, and disciplined experimentation.
Partner with software engineers, architects, SRE, product, and platform teams to design for performance early in the development lifecycle.
Create realistic, repeatable test environments, workloads, data sets, and capacity models for cloud-native systems.
Develop dashboards and automated reporting that make performance trends, regressions, and risks visible to engineering leaders.
Improve performance engineering practices, tooling, documentation, and technical standards across teams.
Coach engineers on performance testing, measurement, root-cause analysis, and automated quality practices.
Use AI coding agent (Claude code or similar) to build and maintain test suites, generate workloads, and analyze results and apply judgement to what they produce.

Qualifications

Required:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
7+ years of experience in software engineering, performance engineering, site reliability engineering, or a closely related discipline, including substantial hands-on performance testing experience
Strong software development skills in at least one language such as Java, Go, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript
Hands-on experience with performance and load-testing tools such as k6, Gatling, JMeter, Locust, or equivalent
Experience automating tests and quality gates in modern CI/CD pipelines
Strong knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure
Experience analyzing latency, throughput, concurrency, error rates, resource saturation, and capacity limits
Experience using observability and profiling tools to isolate bottlenecks across application, database, network, and infrastructure layers
Ability to translate business-critical user journeys and reliability expectations into realistic workloads, measurable thresholds, and actionable engineering recommendations
Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams

What We Value

Customer Obsessed — You treat customer problems as your own and build relationships with the people behind the logo, not just the account. You can point to decisions you changed because of what a customer told you.
High Agency — You own problems beyond your job description and move without waiting to be asked. When the path isn't defined, you make the call and bring people with you rather than working around them.
Truth Seeking — You hold a strong point of view and update it when the data says otherwise. You argue for the best answer regardless of who's in the room, and once a decision is made, you commit to it fully.
Hard Work — You own the end result, not just your slice of it, and you go beyond what's expected to get there. You work smart as well as hard, and you find real reward in building something demanding alongside people who do the same.
Ship Excellence — You hold a painfully high quality bar and keep raising it, while shipping with urgency instead of waiting for perfect. Every iteration is something you learn from.
Direct Feedback — You give honest, constructive feedback regardless of seniority or tenure, and you actively ask for it in return. You deliver it with enough care that people want to hear it from you.

Preferred (Not Required):

Experience with enterprise DevOps, software delivery, developer platforms, or governance products
Experience testing large-scale Kubernetes or multi-tenant SaaS environments
Experience with OpenTelemetry and observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or New Relic
Experience with chaos engineering, resilience testing, capacity planning, or cost-performance optimization

Compensation & Benefits

Base Pay Range: $130,000 - $160,000 annually In accordance with applicable law, this represents a reasonable estimated compensation range for this role. Actual compensation will be determined based on skills, experience, and geographic location and may be more or less than the amount shown above. Outside of base compensation, CloudBees also offers stock options and variable bonuses.

What CloudBees Offers

Time that's actually yours. Our BEE-Flexible PTO policy folds vacation, sick time, and personal days into one unlimited plan. Plus paid U.S. holidays and 2 dedicated Bee-Giving Days to volunteer for a cause you care about.
Health coverage from day one. You're eligible on your start date, not 90 days in. Choose from medical, dental and vision options designed to support your healthcare needs. Choose an HDHP plan and we will contribute to your HSA on top of your own pre-tax contributions.
Real money toward your future. Invest in your future with a competitive 401(k) company match, offering both pre-tax and Roth options to help you reach your financial goals.
Protection we pay for entirely. We fully fund your Life and AD&D, Short Term Disability and Long Term Disability protection. Plus our Employee Assistance Program is fully covered too.
Support for your headspace - literally. All Bees have access to a company-sponsored Headspace account. Plus, a dedicated Care Concierge service in the U.S. so you never have to decode a benefits question alone.
A home office that works. A stipend every month toward your work-from-home setup in addition to the opportunity to work (hybrid for Denver, CO employees) in an office with your peers.
Upside when we win. Base salary is the floor. Our bonus plan rewards for the goals you deliver and the growth we drive together.
People who sweat the craft. A team that takes its work seriously and invests in each other's growth.
A global, collaborative team that lives by our values: Customer Obsessed, High Agency, Truth Seeking, Hard Work, Ship Excellence, Direct Feedback.

EEO Statement

CloudBees is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, and business need, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

Disclaimer

This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. It is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this position. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

About the company

CloudBees provides enterprise CI/CD software that automates and accelerates software delivery. It offers on-premises and cloud-based solutions built around Jenkins, with plugins and build-acceleration features to optimize resources and reduce cycle times. The platform integrates with development pipelines to manage build, test, and deployment across environments using dynamic provisioning and multi-environment workflows, under a subscription model with support. It targets large organizations in finance, healthcare, and technology, prioritizing security, governance, and compliance, including vulnerability management and adherence to regulations like CCPA; its goal is to enable reliable, scalable software delivery at enterprise scale.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$368.2M

Headquarters

San Jose, California

Founded

2010

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

CloudBees appointed Moritz Plassnig CEO on June 16, 2026, after profitability.
The May 2026 Agentic DevOps World launch validates demand for governance-first AI delivery.
Launchable acquisition strengthens test intelligence, reducing build times and machine-hours for enterprises.

What critics are saying

GitHub Actions added agentic workflows and stronger enterprise controls in 2026.
Harness shipped native AI agent deployments and progressive rollouts in August 2026.
If Unify stalls, CloudBees becomes a niche Jenkins-adjacent vendor with shrinking relevance.

What makes CloudBees unique

CloudBees Unify ties fragmented toolchains to one governed DevSecOps control plane.
Moritz Plassnig returned June 16, 2026, signaling founder-level product conviction.
CloudBees targets regulated enterprises needing auditability across human and AI code.

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GlobeNewswire

Oct 6th, 2026

CloudBees opens Denver office as a major U.S. Hiring hub.

CloudBees opens Denver office as a major U.S. Hiring hub. New hub to leverage Denver's deep pool of tech talent as company expands. DENVER, Oct. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - CloudBees, which helps enterprises build, run and govern software factories in the agentic coding era, today announced the opening of its new office in downtown Denver, creating a hiring hub for engineering, product and go-to-market roles. The office opening is part of CEO Moritz Plassnig's strategy to grow CloudBees in tech hubs globally as it helps enterprises navigate a new era of software development. "I know and love Colorado, and I've watched its tech talent pool grow into something real." Denver's tech workforce is projected to grow by 2.2% in 2026, adding nearly 3,500 net tech jobs, according to CompTIA's 2026 State of the Tech Workforce report, a growth rate that ranks among the top 10 metro areas in the country. Colorado also ranks 4th nationally for the concentration of tech workers in its overall workforce. The Denver metro area is home to prominent hubs for major technology companies, including Salesforce, Oracle, Datadog, and Gusto. For Plassnig, a Colorado resident, the opening is also personal. He returned to lead CloudBees as CEO in June 2026, after first joining the company through their 2018 acquisition of Codeship, the CI/CD platform Plassnig co-founded. "I know and love Colorado, and I've watched its tech talent pool grow into something real," said Moritz Plassnig, CEO of CloudBees. "Opening our Denver office is an important step in our broader plan to expand our team, strengthen our presence in key communities, and continue building the company for what's ahead." CloudBees is also building stronger ties to the local tech community. Plassnig recently joined the 'Building from Colorado' panel at Colorado Startup Week, a discussion on why companies are choosing to build and invest in Colorado's tech ecosystem. The company expects to deepen its involvement as it grows its Denver presence. Denver joins CloudBees' broader U.S. footprint, including hiring hubs in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City and Raleigh, alongside teams across EMEA and APAC. CloudBees is continuing to hire for roles in Denver and globally, with open positions available at cloudbees.com/careers. About CloudBees CloudBees helps organizations build, run, and govern software factories, giving enterprises the confidence to ship software better, faster, and safer. Writing code is no longer the bottleneck. Governing what reaches production and validating its impact is. As enterprises adopt agentic coding, software is created faster than most teams can review, secure, and validate. Without consistent governance, organizations risk shipping code they cannot explain, audit, or trust. CloudBees addresses this challenge without asking teams to replace the tools they already use. Across every toolchain a customer runs, CloudBees makes each change, human or AI, visible, auditable, and accountable before it reaches production. CloudBees Unify is the product behind this: a governance layer, with context and control-plane capabilities, that enforces consistent policy and evidence across every tool, team, and workflow. Founded in 2010, CloudBees is backed by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bridgepoint Capital, HSBC, Golub Capital, Delta-v Capital, Matrix Partners, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Media Contact

Digital IT News

Jun 17th, 2026

CloudBees appoints Moritz Plassnig as CEO.

CloudBees appoints Moritz Plassnig as CEO. CloudBees has announced the appointment of Moritz Plassnig as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Plassnig succeeds Anuj Kapur, who guided the company through a period of operational transformation, profitability, and revenue growth while serving major enterprise customers. A founder of Codeship and experienced product leader, Plassnig returns to CloudBees to advance its vision for governed AI software delivery in the era of agentic coding, with a strong focus on developer trust. Plassnig, founder of Codeship, the continuous integration and delivery platform acquired by CloudBees in 2018, returns with a rare combination: deep enterprise product instincts and a track record of building tools developers love. Most recently, Moritz served as Chief Product Officer at Immuta, a data security and governance platform, where he oversaw product, engineering and customer success. He will also join the CloudBees Board of Directors. Plassnig assumes leadership at a pivotal moment for the software industry as AI is writing an increasing share of enterprise code. The enterprises CloudBees serves, including software and technology companies, financial institutions, governments, and critical infrastructure providers, want to embrace this shift. With agents now committing, testing, and deploying code autonomously, the bottleneck has shifted from generating code to governing what ultimately reaches production environments. "Software development is on the brink of its own revolution," said Moritz Plassnig, CEO of CloudBees. "Enterprises are under pressure to adopt agentic coding without losing control, and that requires oversight, auditability, and humans in the loop. CloudBees has spent more than a decade earning the trust of the world's largest and most regulated engineering organizations. The question every CIO is asking right now is: how do I move at the speed of AI without losing the ability to explain, audit, and stand behind what ships? That's the problem we're built to solve, and there's no better moment to solve it." Under Plassnig, CloudBees is moving immediately to be an AI-first company in the products it builds and ships, and in how it runs the business itself, with AI agents already embedded across CloudBees' own engineering, marketing, and customer operations. The company's open and flexible governance layer gives CIOs, CISOs, and platform leaders one place to set policy, manage risk, and maintain control over how software is built, secured, and released across every tool in their stack, not only CloudBees' own. Every change, human or AI, becomes visible, auditable, and accountable, and the Global 2000 can adopt AI-driven development securely without replacing the tools and workflows their teams already rely on. Plassnig is already engaging with customers, and this will continue to be his priority in the coming weeks. "We are grateful to Anuj for leaving CloudBees profitable and focused. But the Board didn't bring Moritz in to stay the course," said Sacha Labourey, Co-founder and Board member, CloudBees. "Agentic coding fundamentally changes what enterprises need from us, and CloudBees will change just as radically. Moritz understands what it takes to build software in the agentic era because he has done it, and that changes how he thinks about the governance enterprises require and the developer experience that makes governance something teams choose rather than tolerate. He has the urgency to lead that transformation."

The Manila Times

May 13th, 2026

CloudBees announces inaugural Agentic DevOps World as 200+ enterprise leaders confront the Code Abundance Paradox.

CloudBees announces inaugural Agentic DevOps World as 200+ enterprise leaders confront the Code Abundance Paradox. By GlobeNewswire May 14, 2026 The summit will debut the State of Code Abundance 2026 report, highlighting governance, cost, and production risks emerging from AI-driven software delivery SAN FRANCISCO, May 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - CloudBees, the trusted software delivery solution for the agentic era, today announced Agentic DevOps World 2026: The AI Software Delivery Summit, a virtual event taking place on May 19, from 9:00 AM to 10:45 AM PDT. The summit will bring together CIOs, CTOs, and VPs of Engineering to examine how AI-generated code is reshaping enterprise software delivery, surfacing new challenges in governance, cost visibility, and production reliability. The event will feature the live launch of the State of Code Abundance 2026 report, revealing data insights from over 200 enterprise technology leaders on the risks, tradeoffs, and opportunities shaping AI-driven development. "There are both massive opportunities and notable risks with AI-driven software development. While we've seen gains in code development velocity, we're also seeing the cracks in governance, cost predictability, and clarity around who actually owns the code coming out the other end," said Anuj Kapur, CEO of CloudBees. "Most enterprises are moving faster with less visibility than ever before. That's why we're bringing leaders together to confront what the data is already telling us and address these gaps before they become crises." The summit will explore key themes shaping agentic software delivery, including productivity and ROI measurement, AI code trust gaps, and token consumption and cost escalation. It will also examine the rise of "token anxiety," a new set of challenges echoing the early days of cloud adoption. Featured Sessions * The Abundance Paradox + The Market Shift - Moderated by Madison Mills, Senior AI Reporter at Axios, featuring Anuj Kapur (CloudBees CEO) and Shawn Ahmed (CloudBees CPO), opening with first findings from the State of Code Abundance 2026 report. * What Code Abundance Means for Your SDLC - Loreli Cadapan (CloudBees VP of Product Management) and Anthony Aquilio (CloudBees VP of Engineering) examine where new bottlenecks are forming and what engineering and product leaders need to rethink based on the findings. * Agentic Development in Practice - Phil Nash (Developer Relations Engineer - AI, Agents & MCP, Langflow, IBM) provides a ground-level view of what AI-native development looks like inside real engineering workflows, including where new risks emerge and what teams need to get ahead of them. * From Code Abundance to Delivery Confidence - Ger McMahon (Fidelity Investments) shares a real-world account of what happens when code generation speed outpaces the ability to ship safely, and how one team regained control. Agentic DevOps World 2026 is free to attend. Registration is open at https://www.cloudbees.com/agentic-devops-world About CloudBees CloudBees is the trusted software delivery solution for the agentic era, bringing control, governance, and intelligence to enterprise software delivery. As organizations adopt AI-driven development across increasingly fragmented toolchains, they face mounting challenges in visibility, compliance, and operational consistency. CloudBees unifies DevSecOps across teams, tools, and environments, providing a consistent layer of control, policy, and insight across the entire software delivery lifecycle. At its core is CloudBees Unify, the AI-powered context and control plane for enterprise DevSecOps. Unify connects fragmented toolchains into a single view, with trusted context, consistent policy, and auditable automation across every stage of delivery without rip-and-replace migration. Founded in 2010, CloudBees serves global enterprises including HSBC, Capital One, the IRS, Salesforce, and Adobe, and is backed by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bridgepoint Capital, HSBC, Golub Capital, Delta-v Capital, Matrix Partners, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Visit us at https://www.cloudbees.com. SutherlandGold for CloudBees

CloudBees

Feb 20th, 2026

CloudBees Unify wins Gold in the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, DevSecOps.

CloudBees Unify wins Gold in the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, DevSecOps. CloudBees Unify has been named a Gold Award recipient in the DevSecOps category of the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, selected by an independent panel of cybersecurity practitioners, analysts, and CISOs from the Cybersecurity Insiders community. Enterprise security teams aren't losing sleep over whether to adopt AI-accelerated development. That ship has sailed. What keeps them up is governance: how do you maintain control when code velocity triples, AI is generating half or more of your codebase, and your toolchain sprawls across 15 different platforms? That's where CloudBees Unify comes in. Rather than adding another point solution, Unify acts as a DevSecOps control plane, centralizing visibility, embedding policy-driven governance directly into developer workflows, and extending AI-aware guardrails to the agentic development patterns that are quickly becoming the norm. The result: security stops being a gate at the end of the pipeline and becomes a property of the pipeline itself. In banking, where security isn't a feature, it's a regulatory mandate, the bar is unambiguous: The shift enterprises describe isn't tactical. It's structural: Teams that once scrambled to catch vulnerabilities before release now build compliance into commit. Security and engineering stop fighting over the finish line. Read more customer stories Its team is at RSAC 2026 Conference - look for the purple CloudBees coffee cart outside Moscone. The conversations CloudBees is having are less about features and more about a fundamental question enterprise security leaders are wrestling with: How do you govern what you can't fully see, especially when AI is generating half or more of your codebase? That's the conversation CloudBees Unify was built for. Let's talk.

Goldin Digital Publishing Inc.

Nov 18th, 2025

CloudBees Launches Unify AI Design Partner Program

CloudBees launches Unify AI Design Partner program. CloudBees announced the launch of the Unify AI Design Partner (AIDP) program. Throughout the 90-day program, partners work directly with CloudBees' product and engineering teams to influence the Unify roadmap and gain hands-on access to the tools and insights driving autonomous DevOps forward, gaining early access to new Unify capabilities, starting with this first alpha release: This new capability brings context-aware intelligence to software delivery. Every insight is captured within Unify's context plane (spanning code to pipeline to policy), ensuring each action is logged, explainable and compliant. Program participants emerge with tangible outcomes essential to providing organizations with the confidence to scale AI safely and securely: end-to-end triage visibility across fragmented SDLC tooling, and faster MTTR (mean time to recovery). These lay the foundation for measurable proof and governed agentic actions in the future. "Enterprises want the power of AI without sacrificing trust, control or choice. Through the Unify AI Design Partnership, we're partnering directly with engineering innovators to build AI that understands their environments, respects their guardrails, and measurably improves software delivery," said Jason Burt, AI Product Lead at CloudBees. "With early access to Unify's AI First Responder, our partners are helping us shape a future of autonomous DevOps that is safe, compliant and aligned to how real teams work." Parasoft(link is external) announced a significant leap forward in autonomous software quality with its latest 2025.2 releases of Jtest and dotTEST. CloudBees announced the launch of the Unify AI Design Partner (AIDP) program. noBGP announced the launch of pi GPT, a custom GPT for OpenAI's ChatGPT that allows users to bring their Raspberry Pi devices into the vibe coding ecosystem. Postman announced its acquisition of liblab, a platform for developers that automates the generation and maintenance of Software Development Kits (SDKs). JFrog announced an expansion of its AI governance capabilities within the JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform with the introduction of Shadow AI Detection. Red Hat introduced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 and 9.7, building on the innovations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 for a more intelligent and future-ready computing foundation. Solo.io announced the launch of agentregistry, a centralized, trusted, and curated open source registry for AI applications and artifacts. Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift 4.20, the latest version of the hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation(R)(CNCF(R), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced a major new release of Helm, coinciding with the project's 10th anniversary. Mirantis announced the latest release of Mirantis k0rdent Enterprise, with Mirantis k0rdent Virtualization - enabling workloads to run with cloud-native applications and traditional virtualized workloads. Couchbase announced significant advancements to the Couchbase Mobile platform, which makes it possible to run AI-powered applications on devices operating at the disconnected edge. Legit Security announced VibeGuard, a solution designed to secure AI-generated code at the moment of creation and to secure coding agents. Black Duck announced that Black Duck(R) SCA can now identify and analyze AI models, starting with the 2025.10.0 release. Parasoft(link is external) is showcasing its latest innovations in software quality assurance for safety- and security-critical embedded systems at embedded world North America, booth 8031(link is external). The Cloud Native Computing Foundation(R)(CNCF(R), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced new integrations between Falco, a graduated project, and Stratoshark, a forensic tool inspired by Wireshark.