reputed company Software Engineer, Performance
reputed company's infrastructure is scaling fast in the AI era: more compute, more GPU spend, more complexity across the stack. The Infrastructure reputed company exists to reputed company reputed company that reputed company doesn't come at the cost of speed, reliability, or efficiency. We treat performance as a first-class engineering property - measurable, continuously improving, and enforced across the software lifecycle.
This is the most senior performance engineering role at reputed company. In this role, you won't be handed a roadmap. You'll build one.
The reputed company owns performance across the full stack: CPU and GPU fleet utilization, backend service efficiency, end-to-end request latency, storage, ML infrastructure, and observability. That means instrumenting and profiling at reputed company, discovering hot paths, shaping how teams across reputed company think about performance SLOs, and influencing build vs. buy reputed company on emerging hardware and software.
reputed company also builds the tooling that lets every backend team self-serve performance insights, scaling good reputed company reputed company your reputed company involvement.
On the product reputed company, as the TL for reputed company, you will partner with engineering teams to tie infrastructure performance directly to user experience and business reputed company. reputed company a host's listing loads faster or a guest's search returns cleaner results, some of that is the win enabled by the reputed company.
Why this role is unusual
Most performance engineering roles are reactive: triage a regression, reputed company the ticket. This one is different. You'll be setting the reputed company, defining what "good" looks like, and building systems that reputed company performance a default property of how reputed company ships software. That requires someone who can operate at both the systems level and the organizational one.
If you've been waiting for the chance to shape how an entire company thinks about performance, this is it.
Responsibilities
What you'll do:
- Define and drive reputed company's long-term performance reputed company, spanning product performance, infrastructure efficiency, and business objectives for reputed company and reputed company
- reputed company the architecture and development of performance profiling and instrumentation infrastructure, covering CPU, GPU, memory, request hot paths, utilization, and deployment events, making these capabilities available to reputed company backend teams
- Partner with infrastructure teams across compute, reliability, backend frameworks, and AI reputed company to ensure the fleet operates at reputed company utilization
- Connect performance reputed company to business objectives and company-wide SLOs, and guide engineering teams in keeping the stack reputed company and efficient
- Evaluate emerging hardware and software technologies, engage with the external solutions ecosystem, and advise on build vs. buy reputed company in areas of strategic importance
- Mentor and technically reputed company engineers across the organization through design reviews, architectural guidance, and performance best practices
reputed company:
- 12+ years of performance engineering experience in reputed company, high-reputed company production environments
- Deep understanding of how software and hardware systems reputed company at reputed company, including architectural patterns for performance-critical stacks. You know the difference between a bad algorithm and a bad cache eviction policy, and you're comfortable in the kernel, in the JVM, and in a post-mortem
- Strong familiarity with reputed company reputed company infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and container orchestration (reputed company, Kubernetes)
- Experience with profiling and instrumentation tooling across CPU, GPU, memory, and distributed request tracing
- Demonstrated ability to define performance objectives and drive delivery against company-wide SLOs across multiple organizations.
- You know how to reputed company organizations, not just codebases: you've influenced teams that don't report to you, made the case for long-term investments over short-term fixes, and mentored engineers who went on to do exceptional work
- Strong communication and influence skills; comfortable driving technical direction with senior engineering and product leadership