Member of Technical Staff (Performance Engineering)
Core
Performance engineer evaluating database performance under various workloads and configurations to shape the performance of CockroachDB.
Role type
Staff-level performance engineer (database systems)
Builds
CockroachDB (distributed SQL database)
Domain
Cloud infrastructure + distributed databases
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
performance analysis, benchmarking, root cause analysis, workload modeling, automation tooling, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, database internals
Preferred skills
writing clean idiomatic code, technical communication, authoring technical content
Technologies
CockroachDB, GCP, AWS, Azure
Responsibilities
Measure and define performance baselines, perform root cause analysis across the stack, perform competitive benchmarking, build new workloads, develop workload strategies and methodologies, build automation tools and frameworks, guide other teams on benchmarking and performance testing methodologies
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC
