Senior Director, Performance Engineering -Infrastructure and Reliability
Core
Strategic leadership role defining performance strategy, standards, and excellence across the entire product stack (frontend, APIs, backend, databases, infrastructure) to ensure systems meet customer expectations and drive cost efficiency.
Role type
Senior Director, Performance Engineering (Strategic Leadership)
Builds
High-performing performance engineering team; organization-wide performance strategy, standards, and measurement frameworks.
Domain
Software Engineering, Infrastructure, Cloud Operations, Agentic AI Systems
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Performance engineering strategy, scalability, systems optimization, frontend performance, API design, backend optimization, database query tuning, caching strategies, observability, cost optimization, team leadership, cross-functional collaboration.
Preferred skills
Experience with agentic AI systems, container orchestration, CDN strategy, real user monitoring (RUM), synthetic monitoring.
Technologies
Kubernetes, Cloud platforms, LLMs, Agentic AI frameworks, Observability tools.
Responsibilities
Define organization-wide performance vision and SLOs; establish performance architecture patterns and guardrails; lead performance optimization initiatives across the stack; build and mentor the performance engineering team; partner with AI/ML teams on agentic AI performance; communicate performance strategy to executive stakeholders.
Seniority
Senior Director, Strategic Leadership
