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Senior Software Engineer

Austin, Texas, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-01 → 2026-09-26

Core

Senior Software Engineer focused on performance engineering, optimizing system speed, scalability, and reliability for web sites, APIs, and distributed systems.

Role type

Senior IC Performance Engineer / Backend Engineer

Builds

Scalable backend services, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems

Domain

Automotive technology, Cloud infrastructure, Distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Backend development, Distributed systems design, Performance optimization, Load testing, Observability, Cloud & Container ecosystems, Profiling, Caching strategies

Preferred skills

Advanced performance testing tools, Master's degree in CS

Technologies

K6, JMeter, Data dog, Grafana, Dynatrace, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Design and maintain scalable backend services and microservices; Diagnose and resolve application performance issues; Implement performance optimization strategies; Conduct performance and load testing; Collaborate with DevOps/SRE on system resilience; Mentor junior engineers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities

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