Performance Software Engineer

Job Summary

Design, develop, analyze, and optimize software and performance capabilities for storage services and distributed systems. In this role you will collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to model, measure, analyze, and improve the performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency of HW platforms—ensuring customer and market requirements are met while balancing quality, cost, and time-to-market. The ideal candidate is systems-focused, analytical and creative, and driven to deliver measurable performance improvements at scale.

Job Requirements

• Design and execute performance benchmarks/workloads; measure, analyze, interpret, and socialize results to identify improvement opportunities.
• Apply AI-assisted performance engineering techniques and develop tools (e.g., performance analysis, automated regression triage) to accelerate bottleneck analysis and guide optimization priorities.
• Evaluate design alternatives and prototype performance enhancements across platforms and distributed components.
• Collect and analyze customer experience and usage patterns; prepare findings and recommendations for engineering and management.
• Proficiency with scripting and automation (Python, shell; Perl acceptable), ansible playbooks and comfort working with notebooks (e.g., Jupyter).
• Hand on experience with performance analysis, modeling techniques, benchmarking, and workload characterization
• Strong background in Linux (such as RHEL or Ubuntu) administration.
• Understanding of networking protocols and storage management is a plus.

Education

IC - Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience.Mgr & Exec - Typically requires a minimum of 3 years of related experience.