Lead Performance Engineer

About This Role

As a Lead Member of Technical Staff (LMTS) with expertise in performance and scale, you will drive innovation, design high-scale automation frameworks, and ensure product reliability. This role involves preventing bottlenecks through architectural influence, database tuning, and expert root cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead performance efforts for multi-team projects by designing traffic models, establishing scale goals, and implementing sophisticated automation and monitoring strategies
• Act as the expert in database tuning and system optimizations, driving design meetings by questioning implementation choices and proposing performant alternatives
• Rapidly build Proof of Concepts (POCs) to test ideas and lead research spikes and "fail fast" prototypes to address critical scale issues
• Partner with Product Managers to align features with customer usage patterns and ensure performance is a core part of the Definition of Done (DoD)
• Coach AMTS, MTS, and SMTS engineers, leading code and design reviews, and sharing deep product expertise to elevate the team’s technical bar
• Manage features from initial design through production deployment and post-release support
• Own the resolution of the most complex, systemic performance issues

Requirements

• Experience as a developer building platforms and applications
• Experience in building automation tools
• Coding experience in Java, C, Python, Ruby on Rails
• Knowledge of modular design
• Deep knowledge of Java and its internals, including JVM performance tuning, GC mechanisms, and familiarity with Java Profiling (e.g., JProfiler, YourKit)
• Expert-level understanding of key performance metrics associated with throughput, latency, memory, CPU, disk & network, and the ability to debug bottlenecks associated with any of them
• Hands-on experience in open source load test tools
• Expert in profiling, instrumentation, load generation tools, and database optimization
• Proven track record in API design, concurrency, and resource efficiency for massive scale
• Strong communicator able to present technical findings to both executives and architects
• Ability to constantly generate and validate new ideas
• Ability to manage technical debt and provide a long-term vision for performance
• Excels at Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and complex optimization

Qualifications

• Experience as a developer building platforms and applications, along with experience in building automation tools.

Nice to Have

• A good understanding of enterprise architecture principles
• Familiarity with NoSQL data stores and transport systems such as Spark, Storm, Cassandra, Kafka

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits