Performance Engineer - Benchmarking
Core
Build and evolve benchmarking, profiling, and load-testing tooling to detect regressions, explain performance changes, and publish credible numbers for customers and the market.
Role type
Senior IC performance engineer (benchmarking & profiling)
Builds
Continuous benchmarking infrastructure, regression triage tooling, and reproducible performance reports
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, database performance
Required skills
Performance engineering, benchmarking, profiling, distributed systems, database internals, cloud infrastructure, tooling development, variance control, regression analysis
Preferred skills
Experience with load generators, PR-based benchmarking, query-level attribution
Technologies
Cloud, database, end-to-end testing frameworks
Responsibilities
Build benchmark suites and reference workloads reflecting real customer behavior; establish performance baselines and regression gates; create triage workflows for benchmark results; partner with database teams to identify bottlenecks; enable self-service performance testing for product teams
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC