About the Role
You will focus on enhancing the stability, speed, and efficiency of backend systems through proactive monitoring, performance tuning, and root cause analysis of complex issues.
Responsibilities
- Identify and resolve system bottlenecks affecting throughput and latency
- Design and implement observability tools for real-time performance insights
- Collaborate with engineers to integrate reliability best practices
- Conduct load testing and stress analysis on distributed services
- Develop automation for detecting and mitigating performance regressions
- Maintain uptime and service level objectives for core systems
- Investigate production incidents and lead post-mortem reviews
- Optimize resource utilization across compute and storage layers
- Improve error handling and recovery mechanisms in data pipelines
- Support deployment processes with performance benchmarking
- Refine monitoring dashboards to track key reliability metrics
- Evaluate new technologies for performance improvements
- Document system behavior under various load conditions
- Work closely with product teams to set realistic performance goals
- Ensure scalability under growing data volumes and query complexity
Nice to Have
- Master’s degree in computer science or related field
- Experience with real-time data processing systems
- Contributions to open-source performance tools
- Background in time-series data handling
- Familiarity with formal verification methods
- Published work or talks on systems performance topics
Compensation
Competitive salary and equity package
Work Arrangement
Remote with flexible hours
Team
Small, cross-functional engineering team focused on systems performance
Our Stack
- We use Rust for core processing, deployed on Kubernetes via GCP
- Monitoring powered by Prometheus and Grafana
- CI/CD pipelines built on GitHub Actions and ArgoCD
Growth Opportunities
- Engineers lead initiatives from design to deployment
- Regular tech talks and knowledge sharing sessions
- Budget for conferences and professional development
Available for qualified candidates
