Staff Engineer - Performance

About the role

We are seeking a Staff Engineer – Performance with strong expertise in data path and I/O performance for large-scale distributed file systems. This role focuses on analyzing, optimizing, and improving performance across the storage stack, from low-level code paths to system-wide behavior at scale.

What you'll do

• Contribute to the performance design of data path and I/O components in distributed file systems
• Perform performance analysis, troubleshooting, and optimization of large-scale, high-performance file systems
• Implement performance-aware improvements across CPU, memory, storage, and network layers
• Optimize performance-critical file system code, primarily in C++
• Apply best practices for performance measurement, profiling, benchmarking, and regression detection

What you need

• 10–18 years in software engineering
• C++
• System design
• Performance testing
• Any graduate