Senior Performance Engineer

. Diagnose and prioritize architectural problems across distributed backend systems .

Posted 10/15/2026full-timeUnited StatesSenior💰 $148,500 - $223,900 per yearWebsite

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGraphQLJenkinsPostgresSpinnakerGo

Key responsibilities & impact

Diagnose and prioritize architectural problems across distributed backend systems
Contribute technical perspective to foundational engineering investment decisions
Design and implement application performance optimizations, infrastructure improvements, and data model solutions
Raise and maintain engineering quality standards, guardrails, and team practices that prevent regressions
Collaborate with customer, product, and engineering teams to understand customer needs and make pragmatic tradeoffs
Serve as a subject matter expert in application performance
Mentor engineers on backend architecture, system design, engineering judgment, and collaboration
Develop a deep technical understanding of the Agentforce Operations architecture
Optimize scalability, resilience, and performance across the full product and platform stack
Streamline asynchronous operation patterns and profile and rightsize infrastructure
Develop tools and observability to run experiments and empirically validate results

What you’ll need

5+ years of industry experience as a backend engineer, building and operating user-facing applications and their underlying infrastructure
Mastery of Golang, GraphQL, and Postgres, with demonstrated experience delivering high-performance optimizations
Experience with a major public cloud provider; AWS preferred
Deep expertise in multiple areas of backend engineering, including data modeling, database performance tuning, state management, API design, transactionality, concurrency, memory management, fault tolerance, and scaling
Repeated ownership of foundational system work in complex distributed systems, from diagnosing architectural problems to designing solutions and driving adoption across a team
Excellent writing and speaking skills and ability to lead real-time technical-design discussions
Demonstrated ownership and accountability, with a consistent track record of high standards, continuous improvement, and low-ego collaboration
B.S. in Computer Science is preferred
M.S. is preferred
Experience working in AWS, specifically with RDS, Elasticache, S3, and EKS
Exposure to Temporal, Istio, or Typesense
Experience with CI/CD systems, specifically Jenkins and Spinnaker
Exposure to the supply chain, logistics, or manufacturing industry
Familiarity with the Salesforce platform
Experience with workflow engines

Comp & perks