Payments Platform Capacity & Performance Lead

Planet; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Planet is seeking a Capacity & Performance Lead to own capacity and performance management for Planet’s payments platform. You will forecast demand, govern resource headroom, and ensure platform performance meets SLO targets as transaction volumes grow.

You will build capacity models, define baselines, and collaborate with engineering to implement scaling strategies while balancing cost and performance. Join a hybrid team in Warsaw to drive reliable payments services.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in capacity management or performance engineering in high‑volume environments.
• Experience modelling demand and translating growth into infrastructure capacity.
• Strong understanding of cloud scaling patterns (AWS/Azure/GCP) and traditional on‑prem capacity.

Responsibilities

• Own the capacity and performance management practice end‑to‑end: demand forecasting, threshold governance, and remediation plan.
• Build capacity models for critical payment services and translate business growth into infrastructure requirements.
• Define and govern performance baselines and thresholds; trigger proactive right‑sizing before customers notice impact.
• Partner with engineering and cloud platform teams on scaling strategies, auto‑scaling policies and cost‑performance trade‑offs.
• Run capacity reviews as part of the monthly service governance cycle; report headroom and risk to leadership.
• Feed capacity insights into change risk assessment and service transition readiness.

Skills

Capacity management

Performance engineering

Infrastructure planning

Cloud scaling patterns

Monitoring/APM data analysis

Tools

Datadog

Grafana

CloudWatch

Job description

Planet is seeking a Capacity & Performance Lead to own capacity and performance management for Planet’s payments platform. You will forecast demand, govern resource headroom, and ensure platform performance meets SLO targets as transaction volumes grow.

You will build capacity models, define baselines, and collaborate with engineering to implement scaling strategies while balancing cost and performance. Join a hybrid team in Warsaw to drive reliable payments services.