Senior Performance Engineer – Open Source (Remote)

Higlobe, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning budget USD 2,000/yr

Annual compensation review

Travel opportunities

Maternity and paternity leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Canonical is a pioneering open-source software company known for Ubuntu, with globally distributed teams and flexible, mostly remote roles. The Performance Engineers will drive correctness and efficiency across multiple projects, build shared tooling for measurement and analysis, and mentor teams in performance culture.

These roles emphasize collaboration across time zones, opportunities to move between products, and frequent in-person sprints.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or Physics.
• Professional proficiency in English written and spoken.
• Proven initiative to measure and improve performance, efficiency and correctness in code.
• Leadership and mentorship mindset with ability to share ideas clearly.

Responsibilities

• Drive software performance and correctness in a specific project.
• Collaborate with colleagues and community around the globe.
• Work on shared tools and infrastructure for performance measurement, analysis and reporting.
• Teach, train and develop skills in your team for performance culture and design.
• Strengthen test capabilities, harnesses and pipelines.
• Analyze systems and code to understand performance and scalability.
• Solve problems directly or through influence, leadership and skills development.
• Review code and technical designs.

Job description

Canonical is a pioneering open-source software company known for Ubuntu, with globally distributed teams and flexible, mostly remote roles. The Performance Engineers will drive correctness and efficiency across multiple projects, build shared tooling for measurement and analysis, and mentor teams in performance culture.

These roles emphasize collaboration across time zones, opportunities to move between products, and frequent in-person sprints.