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• Overview

  Public Affairs Institute is hiring a Performance Engineer in Rio Rancho, NM.

• Role description

  We measure our technology engineers by what they make easy for everyone else, and that's the Performance Engineer bar in Rio Rancho. The thing worth noting is how much Public Affairs Institute trusts you here — $79,000 - $110,000, technology ownership, and a long runway, all from 3 years in.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Automate build, test, and deployment pipelines for faster release cycles
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a strong code-review culture
  • Apply Interpersonal Skills and Git to solve trust-the-team engineering challenges
  • Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using TypeScript and Go
  • Guard the Decision Making codebase quality through reviews that teach as much as they catch
  • Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production

  What You'll Bring

  • Comfort owning the unglamorous middle of an internship project
  • Fluency across Decision Making and Unit Testing, with strong opinions on both
  • A history of leaving technology processes better than you found them
  • A collaborator's reflex to share credit and absorb blame

  Public Affairs Institute grew from a Rio Rancho kitchen table into a playfully-serious technology company that Rio Rancho, NM now genuinely depends on. We onboard you to the technology mission first and the Agile tooling second, in that order.

  Joining Public Affairs Institute means $79,000 - $110,000, strong benefits, and a culture where senior engineers actively mentor newer talent.

  Active as of this moment, the Rio Rancho, NM role accepts resumes daily.

  Hit the apply button and let's explore your future with Public Affairs Institute.

• Required skills

  • Unit Testing
  • RabbitMQ
  • .NET Core
  • Go
  • Git
  • TypeScript
  • Agile
  • Jenkins
  • Decision Making
  • Written Communication
  • Interpersonal Skills

• Benefits & perks

  • Visa sponsorship
  • Pension plan
  • Happy hours and social events
  • Paid relocation for international moves
  • Gender-affirming care coverage
  • Compressed Workweek
  • On-site cafeteria
  • Company Car
  • Pet insurance
  • Four-day work week
  • Annual company offsite

• Apply before 2026-08-21

  Submit your application for this Internship technology position.