Senior .NET Performance & Profiling Engineer

Initialize; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Initialize is seeking a .NET Performance Engineer to join their new team, focusing on the runtime health and throughput characteristics of their platform. This role is crucial for diagnosing and resolving performance issues across .NET services, ensuring systems run efficiently and reliably at scale. The ideal candidate will have a specialist background in .NET performance engineering, hands-on experience with profiling tools, and the ability to optimize high-throughput data pipelines. This position offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment and make significant contributions to the team.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable specialism in performance engineering.
• Deep hands-on experience with .NET profiling tools.
• Strong understanding of .NET memory management internals.

Responsibilities

• Profile, diagnose, and resolve performance bottlenecks across .NET services.
• Own memory management strategy across long-running services.
• Investigate and optimise high-throughput data pipelines.
• Identify and resolve large dataset query performance issues.
• Establish and maintain performance benchmarking infrastructure.
• Conduct performance-focused code reviews.
• Collaborate with product engineers for performance constraints.

Skills

.NET / C# development

Performance engineering

.NET profiling tools

Memory management

Data processing optimizations

Query performance diagnostics

Event tracing

AI development

Tools

dotMemory

dotTrace

PerfView

Visual Studio Diagnostic Tools

BenchmarkDotNet

Job description

Initialize is seeking a .NET Performance Engineer to join their new team, focusing on the runtime health and throughput characteristics of their platform. This role is crucial for diagnosing and resolving performance issues across .NET services, ensuring systems run efficiently and reliably at scale. The ideal candidate will have a specialist background in .NET performance engineering, hands-on experience with profiling tools, and the ability to optimize high-throughput data pipelines. This position offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment and make significant contributions to the team.