Senior Staff Software Engineer, Performance (Tech Lead)
Core
Own performance, scalability, and reliability across Veza's identity security platform by defining standards, optimizing services, and preventing degradation.
Role type
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Performance (Tech Lead)
Builds
Veza's Access Graph platform for identity security and access entitlement management
Domain
Identity security, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Golang, distributed systems, microservices, database optimization, profiling, load testing, observability, AWS
Preferred skills
Kubernetes, large-scale SaaS platforms, security/identity systems
Technologies
Golang, AWS, Kubernetes
Responsibilities
Define performance benchmarks, SLAs, and best practices; Analyze and optimize services, databases, and infrastructure; Design and execute load, stress, and scalability tests; Build observability and monitor performance metrics of production systems; Lead root cause analysis and long-term performance improvements; Mentor engineers and promote performance ownership across teams
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with technical leadership
