Engineering Manager, Performance & Reliability

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

Job summary

ALO is seeking an Engineering Manager, Performance Engineering to lead teams focused on improving the speed, scalability, and reliability of our web and mobile platforms. You will set performance strategy and guide execution across the stack.

This role values technical depth, thoughtful leadership, and cross-team collaboration, with responsibilities spanning architecture, tooling, CI/CD integration, and collaboration with platform, application, and data teams to drive measurable performance

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering with focus on performance engineering
• 3+ years in technical leadership or engineering management
• Experience with distributed systems and performance characteristics

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the performance engineering strategy across multi-quarter roadmaps
• Lead end-to-end performance architecture across apps, services, infrastructure and cloud platforms
• Establish performance standards, KPIs and benchmarking including Core Web Vitals
• Guide performance practices for web and mobile including load and real-user testing
• Drive frontend and backend performance improvements across APIs, databases, caching, networking and code
• Design and evolve performance tooling: profiling, tracing, telemetry, benchmarking frameworks
• Embed performance into development workflows with CI/CD integration
• Partner with platform, application and data teams to incorporate performance early in design
• Analyze and resolve complex performance issues using data analysis and debugging
• Lead and develop performance engineering teams with mentorship and collaboration

Skills

Performance engineering

Distributed systems

Go/Python/TypeScript

Tools

Profiling tools

Tracing systems

Telemetry frameworks

Benchmarking tools

Job description

ALO is seeking an Engineering Manager, Performance Engineering to lead teams focused on improving the speed, scalability, and reliability of our web and mobile platforms. You will set performance strategy and guide execution across the stack.

This role values technical depth, thoughtful leadership, and cross-team collaboration, with responsibilities spanning architecture, tooling, CI/CD integration, and collaboration with platform, application, and data teams to drive measurable performance