Performance Engineer
Bithumb helps users trade cryptocurrencies with Korean won through a centralized spot exchange with staking and lending services.
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About Bithumb
Bithumb is a cryptocurrency exchange platform serving South Korean and international traders with spot trading across multiple digital assets paired primarily with Korean Won. The platform provides trading tools including automated bots and API access, alongside payment services through Bithumb Cash that enable cryptocurrency transactions at retail merchants and e-commerce platforms. Users can generate passive income through staking programs and a coin rental service. Originally launched as Xcoin in 2014 and rebranded to Bithumb in 2015, the exchange operates as a licensed Virtual Asset Service Provider under South Korean financial regulators.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will analyze performance requirements, write test scenarios and scripts, and conduct performance tests for high-traffic exchange systems. You will identify bottlenecks, tune architectures, forecast capacity, manage APM solutions, build API-based test automation, and detect end-user issues.
Requirements
- 3 to 9 years of experience in SRE, performance, infrastructure engineering, or a related role
- Testing and monitoring capabilities
- Experience with at least one load testing tool such as JMeter, nGrinder, k6, or LoadRunner
- Experience analyzing systems with APM and monitoring tools such as Datadog, WhaTap, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK
- Deep understanding and operational experience with Linux and public cloud infrastructure including AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience operating and improving the performance of high-traffic, financial, or exchange systems
Responsibilities
- Analyze performance requirements
- Write test scenarios and scripts
- Conduct performance tests
- Identify system bottlenecks
- Configure architectures and perform tuning
- Forecast usage for newly expanded services
- Verify processing capacity in advance
- Manage APM solutions including WhaTap
- Build API-based test automation
- Detect end-user issues
Benefits
- Overtime pay calculated by the minute
- Staggered working hours
- Welfare points
- Commuting transportation support for nighttime and holiday work
- Breakfast, lunch, and dinner support
- Unlimited snacks and beverages
- Housing purchase and rental support
- Childcare cost support for preschool children
- Holiday gifts
- Health screenings for employees and family members
- Group accident insurance
- Employee club support
- Resort and condominium accommodations