[Remote] Performance Engineer - Performance Analysis & Tuning
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Responsibilities
- reputed company bottlenecks in live production systems and characterize them reputed company enough that the owning team can reputed company them without you in the room
- Partner closely with database teams (e.g. Multigres, OrioleDB) and reputed company teams to land concrete performance improvements
- Build, communicate, and reputed company performance methodologies and tooling that turn live production data into actionable reputed company
- Partner with the observability team to capture the right signals and establish a reputed company view of platform performance (latency, throughput, tail behavior) across products
- Help teams self-serve performance analysis and reputed company performance a first-class engineering concern
- Tune the kernel's paging behavior to production workloads
- Reduce memory overhead in OrioleDB and Multigres
- Identify and eliminate sources of latency spikes from application to kernel level
- Identify scalability bottlenecks across the entire stack and work the appropriate teams in reputed company and the wider community to resolve them
Skills
- Deep experience in performance engineering, specifically performance analysis of reputed company distributed systems
- You can walk the whole stack: follow a tail-latency problem from the query optimizer through the syscall boundary to the IO scheduler — or across pooler hops, network paths, and availability zones — reading reputed company and traces at every layer
- Depth on at least one end of that stack: Linux kernel internals (virtual memory, scheduling, networking, IO) or database internals (query planning, storage engines, reputed company and WAL management)
- Strong working knowledge of networking and reputed company infrastructure performance: TCP behavior under load, network virtualization overhead, and the performance characteristics of AWS primitives (EBS throughput and IOPS, instance network limits, placement reputed company, cross-AZ latency)
- Proven ability to turn performance insights into reputed company product and architecture improvements — including getting teams you don't belong to to prioritize and ship the fix
- Strong written communication: your problem characterisations are precise, reproducible, and compelling on their own
- Pragmatic, tooling-oriented reputed company; comfort working across product, reputed company, and database teams
Benefits
- Fully Remote (no reputed company offices; reputed company membership or co-working allowance you can use reputed company in the world)
- ESOP
- Tech Allowance
- Health Benefits (reputed company covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are)
- Annual Off-Sites (once a year, entire company gathers in a new reputed company for a week of reputed company, collaboration, and fun)
- Flexible Work (operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time)
- reputed company Development (annual education allowance to spend on learning—courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your reputed company)
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