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Software Development Engineer, Efficiency & Performance

USA💼 Full-time💰 $77,000–$105,000🗓 2026-09-10 → 2026-09-26

Core

Solves performance and efficiency challenges at scale by defining metrics, evaluating service cost efficiency, and implementing improvements across the ecosystem.

Role type

Senior Software Development Engineer (Efficiency & Performance)

Builds

Highly available components, profiling tools, and automated mechanisms for performance gains.

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, AI/ML workloads, storage optimization

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Software development lifecycle experience, design patterns, system architecture, scaling, hands-on programming, code reviews, source control, testing, operations, data analysis

Preferred skills

Full software development lifecycle expertise, collaboration with Principal/Distinguished Engineers

Technologies

AWS Cloud, AI, GPU efficiency infrastructure, centralized scheduling, software performance profiling, data lifecycle management

Responsibilities

Define metrics and evaluate performance/cost efficiency of services; partner with teams to uncover inefficiencies and design improvements; build profiling tools and highly available components; collaborate to remove bottlenecks in distributed systems; design mechanisms to automate performance gains; establish company-wide efficiency goals using data.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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