Senior Performance Engineer, Systems & Open Source

Jobgether; Portugal; Híbrido; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Performance-driven bonus

Annual learning budget (USD 2,000)

Resumo da oferta

Jobgether seeks an exceptional performance engineer to improve software performance, correctness, scalability, and efficiency across the technology stack. You’ll investigate bottlenecks from low-level kernels to runtimes and databases, contributing to tooling, measurement frameworks, and dashboards.

You will mentor peers, share knowledge, and help build a strong performance culture across globally distributed teams.

Qualificações

• Demonstrable personal initiatives or professional experience focused on improving software performance, efficiency, scalability, or correctness.
• Strong experience with Linux, with Debian or Ubuntu experience preferred.
• Professional written and spoken English with strong presentation and communication skills.
• Ability to travel internationally twice per year for company events lasting up to two weeks.
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a comparable technical discipline.

Responsabilidades

• Drive software performance, scalability, efficiency, and correctness within a specific engineering project.
• Analyze systems and code across the stack to identify performance bottlenecks, scalability limitations, and opportunities for optimization.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and open source communities globally to investigate and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Develop and contribute to shared tools and infrastructure for performance measurement, profiling, analysis, benchmarking, and reporting.
• Strengthen testing capabilities, test harnesses, and engineering pipelines to make previously difficult-to-measure system behaviors observable and verifiable.
• Establish and promote effective performance engineering practices, measurement frameworks, and analytical approaches.
• Teach, train, mentor, and develop colleagues to strengthen performance-focused engineering skills and culture.
• Solve technical problems directly while also influencing teams through technical leadership, knowledge sharing, and skills development.
• Review code and technical designs with a focus on performance, efficiency, scalability, and correctness.
• Contribute to performance optimization across different hardware architectures, CPUs, cloud environments, runtimes, and system components.
• Share insights, tools, and best practices that can improve performance engineering across a broader range of products and engineering teams.

Conhecimentos

Linux

English communication

Leadership

Mentoring

Travel internationally

Formação académica

Undergraduate degree in CS/Math/Physics

Excellent academic record in HS and Univ

Ferramentas

eBPF

D-Trace

Flamegraphs

Phoronix Test Suite

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Jobgether seeks an exceptional performance engineer to improve software performance, correctness, scalability, and efficiency across the technology stack. You’ll investigate bottlenecks from low-level kernels to runtimes and databases, contributing to tooling, measurement frameworks, and dashboards.

You will mentor peers, share knowledge, and help build a strong performance culture across globally distributed teams.