Performance Engineer - Benchmarking
Core
Build and evolve benchmarking, profiling, and load-testing tooling to detect regressions, explain performance changes, and publish credible numbers for customers and the market.
Role type
Senior IC performance engineer (benchmarking & profiling)
Builds
Continuous benchmarking infrastructure, regression triage tooling, and reproducible performance reports
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, database performance
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
Performance engineering, benchmarking, profiling, distributed systems, database internals, cloud infrastructure, tooling development, variance control, regression analysis
Preferred skills
Experience with load generators, PR-based benchmarking, query-level attribution
Technologies
Cloud, database, end-to-end testing frameworks
Responsibilities
Build benchmark suites and reference workloads reflecting real customer behavior; establish performance baselines and regression gates; create triage workflows for benchmark results; partner with database teams to identify bottlenecks; enable self-service performance testing for product teams
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC