Performance Engineer - Performance Analysis & Tuning

Job description

ABOUT the employer the employer is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth. ABOUT THE ROLE We're hiring experienced performance engineers to find and land performance wins across the the employer stack — from the query optimiser to block device level, and across the network paths and cloud infrastructure that connect our distributed platform. This is a performance delivery role: real, measured improvements to our database, platform, and APIs as we scale toward enterprise and platform-grade workloads. The methodologies you develop and tooling you build exist to multiply that delivery. You'd join a new performance team as one of its first members, working alongside a deeply seasoned performance engineer, with the team growing to roughly six this year. There's no legacy process to inherit — you'll help define how performance engineering works at the employer. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Find bottlenecks in live production systems and characterize them precisely enough that the owning team can act on them without you in the room. - Partner closely with database teams (e.g. Multigres, OrioleDB) and infra teams to land concrete performance improvements. - Build, communicate, and…