Senior Staff Software Engineer (Performance Engineering)

About the role

As a Performance Engineer for our Identity Security Product, you will design and execute a comprehensive performance engineering strategy. This role requires a hands-on engineer who not only identifies performance degradation but actively investigates, debugs, and implements code-level and database-level fixes.

What you'll do

• Identify, investigate, debug, and fix performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, CPU spikes, and thread contentions
• Optimize SaaS application performance using deep knowledge of the .NET ecosystem
• Analyze complex queries, optimize execution plans, and tune databases to eliminate deadlocks and contention
• Apply a strong understanding of AI, LLMs, and prompt engineering to build diagnostic and automation frameworks
• Dissect complex distributed system issues and formulate clear, actionable execution items for the development team

What you need

• 5–9 yrs of experience
• System design
• SQL
• Java
• Python
• .NET
• C#
• PhD

Good to have

• Performance testing
• CI/CD
• LLMs
• Root cause analysis
• IAM
• Datadog