Performance Engineering Manager

ALO; San Ramon (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. 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.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering with focus on performance engineering, system optimization, or reliability
• 3+ years in technical leadership or engineering management
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and performance characteristics
• Proficiency in at least one language (Go, Python, TypeScript)
• Experience with performance testing, benchmarking, and monitoring tools
• Ability to analyze performance data and design experiments
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the performance engineering strategy
• Lead end-to-end performance architecture across stack
• Establish performance standards and KPIs including Core Web Vitals
• Guide performance practices for web and mobile
• Drive frontend and backend performance improvements
• Design and evolve performance tooling
• Embed performance into development workflows
• Partner with platform, application, and data teams
• Analyze and resolve complex performance issues
• Lead and develop performance engineering teams

Skills

Performance engineering

Distributed systems

Engineering leadership

Go / Python / TS

Performance testing

Monitoring tools

Data analysis

Cross-team collaboration

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. 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.