Performance Engineer
Listed on 2026-11-04
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, IT Support
Trade your current backlog for ours:
Merck needs a Performance Engineer in Helena, MT to take Agile systems from fragile to bulletproof. What you're signing up for is $50,000 - $73,000, a temporary cadence, technology ownership, and a Merck team that rewards nerve.
- Wrangle React config across environments so Helena staging mirrors production
- Drive adoption of best practices in testing, security, and observability
- Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems
- Pair with cross-functional partners to scope and deliver temporary projects
- Review pull requests and uphold engineering standards across the technology team
- Translate React metrics into the one chart Merck leadership checks each morning
- Demonstrated Agile expertise in a fast-moving technology environment
- Proudly-imperfect problem-solving that doesn't wait for permission
- Sound instincts for reading a room you've never been in before
- Willingness to commute to Helena, MT or work flexibly as needed
- Proven Flask results, ideally seasoned in Helena, MT
- At least 1 years of standing behind your own estimates
- The discipline to document while it's fresh, not after it's forgotten
Merck has quietly become one of the most heads-down-and-happy names in technology, all from a modest office in Helena, MT. We protect Fridays for learning, so spend them chasing Type Script or MySQL, your call.
The offer is plainspoken: $50,000 - $73,000, coaching that grows you, benefits that cover you, and a schedule that flexes with Helena.
Freshly verified active, this junior Performance Engineer position is accepting candidates now.
Your Jenkins deserves a stage bigger than your current one, and Merck has it.
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