Performance Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: To Be Discussed
Reviewed: Tue, Jul 28, 2026
This job expires in: 28 days
Job Summary
Joining a new performance team, the full-time Performance Engineer will focus on building and evolving benchmarking, profiling, and load-testing tools while establishing performance baselines and regression gates across products in a fully remote environment.
Key responsibilities
- Build and evolve benchmarking, profiling, and load-testing tooling for cloud, database, and end-to-end applications
- Define benchmark suites and reference workloads that reflect real customer behavior and adapt them as products change
- Establish performance baselines and regression gates, enabling teams to identify bottlenecks and implement performance improvements
Required qualifications
- Deep experience in performance engineering, benchmarking, and profiling of complex distributed systems
- Strong systems intuition related to databases, storage, networking, and cloud infrastructure
- Experience collaborating across product, infrastructure, and database teams
- Pragmatic, tooling-oriented mindset with a focus on reproducibility and variance control
- Strong communication skills to facilitate cross-team collaboration
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