Engineering Manager, Performance Engineering

Alo; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 188,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Alo is seeking an Engineering Manager, Performance Engineering in San Ramon, California to lead teams focused on speed, scalability and reliability of our web and mobile platforms. You will set performance strategy, guide stack-wide execution, and translate insights into measurable improvements.

This role requires deep technical expertise, strong leadership, and cross-team collaboration. You will partner with application, platform and data teams to ensure performance considerations are embedded

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with emphasis on performance engineering or reliability.
• 3+ years in technical leadership or engineering management.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and performance characteristics.
• Experience with performance testing, benchmarking, and monitoring tools.
• Experience operating large-scale consumer-facing or eCommerce systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the performance engineering strategy with multi-quarter roadmaps aligned to business goals.
• Lead end-to-end performance architecture across applications, services, infrastructure and cloud platforms.
• Establish performance standards and KPIs, including Core Web Vitals.
• Guide performance testing practices for web and mobile (load, stress, endurance, RUR).
• Drive frontend and backend performance improvements across APIs, databases, caching, networking and code.
• Design and evolve perf tooling with profiling, tracing, telemetry and benchmarking frameworks.
• Embed performance into CI/CD pipelines and development workflows.
• Partner with platform, application, and data teams to incorporate performance early in design.
• Analyze complex performance issues using data-driven experiments and systems-level debugging.
• Lead and develop performance engineering teams with mentorship and collaboration.

Job description

Engineering Manager, Performance Engineering

San Ramon, California, United States

WHY JOIN ALO?

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About the Role

We are seeking an Engineering Manager, Performance Engineering to lead teams focused on improving the speed, scalability, and reliability of our web and mobile platforms. This role partners closely with application, platform, and data teams to ensure performance is built into system design, development workflows, and production operations.

You will set performance strategy, guide execution across the stack, and help teams turn performance insights into measurable improvements. This role values technical depth, thoughtful leadership, and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the performance engineering strategy, establishing multi-quarter roadmaps aligned with business and customer experience goals.
• Lead end-to-end performance architecture across applications, services, infrastructure, and cloud platforms, ensuring performance is considered at every layer.
• Establish performance standards, KPIs, and benchmarking methodologies, including latency, throughput, error rates, and user experience metrics such as Core Web Vitals.
• Guide performance engineering practices for web and mobile, including load, stress, endurance, and real-user performance testing.
• Drive frontend and backend performance improvements, supporting optimization across APIs, services, databases, caching, networking, and application code.
• Design and evolve performance tooling, including profiling, tracing, telemetry, and benchmarking frameworks that provide actionable insights.
• Embed performance into development workflows, integrating measurement and regression detection into CI/CD pipelines.
• Partner with platform, application, and data teams, ensuring performance considerations are incorporated early in architecture and design decisions.
• Analyze and resolve complex performance issues, using structured experimentation, data analysis, and systems-level debugging.
• Lead and develop performance engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and an inclusive, collaborative environment focused on continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 7+ Years of professional experience in software engineering with more focus on performance engineering, system optimization, or reliability.
• 3+ Years experience in a technical leadership or engineering management role.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and performance characteristics.
• Proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language (e.g., Go, Python, TypeScript).
• Experience with performance testing, benchmarking, and monitoring tools.
• Ability to analyze performance data, design experiments, and translate findings into delivered improvements.
• Strong communication skills and experience collaborating across frontend, backend, and platform teams.
• Experience operating large-scale, consumer-facing or eCommerce systems.
• Familiarity with frontend performance monitoring and Core Web Vitals.
• Experience integrating observability, tracing, and metrics into production systems.
• Background includes cloud-native architectures and distributed infrastructure.
• Experience building developer-facing performance tools or frameworks.
• Familiarity with open-source performance or benchmarking ecosystems.

The base salary range for this position is $188,000-$235,000 per year which represents the current range for the base salary for this exempt position. Please note that actual salaries will vary based on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. As such, on occasion and when applicable, there is the possibility that the final, agreed-upon base salary may be outside of the upper end of the range. Please also note the range listed is just one component of the company’s total rewards package for exempt employees. Other rewards may include performance bonuses, long term incentives, a PTO policy, and many other progressive benefits.

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