Benchmark Engineer

Role Description

We’re looking for a Benchmark Engineer to own and evolve how we measure, validate, and communicate Qdrant’s performance. You’ll design realistic benchmarks, build tooling around them, and transform raw numbers into actionable insights that inform product decisions, documentation, and user trust. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, performance, and developer experience.

• Design and maintain reproducible benchmarks for vector search, indexing, filtering, and distributed workloads.
• Evaluate performance across different dimensions: latency, throughput, recall, memory usage, and cost.
• Compare Qdrant against alternative solutions in a fair, transparent, and technically sound way.
• Build and maintain benchmarking tooling, datasets, and automation (CI, dashboards, reports).
• Collaborate closely with core engineers to identify regressions, bottlenecks, and optimization opportunities.
• Help translate benchmark results into clear narratives for docs, blog posts, and talks.
• Ensure benchmarks reflect real-world user workloads, not just synthetic best cases.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background (Rust, Python, Go, or similar).
• Solid understanding of databases, distributed systems, or search engines.
• Experience with performance testing, profiling, and benchmarking.
• Ability to reason about trade-offs (speed vs accuracy, memory vs latency, etc.).
• Comfort working with large datasets and automation pipelines.
• Clear communication skills — you can explain numbers and their implications.

Requirements

• Experience with vector search, ANN algorithms, or ML infrastructure.
• Familiarity with cloud environments and containerized workloads.
• Experience contributing to open-source projects.
• Knowledge of observability tools and performance profiling.

Benefits

• A remote-first, international team working on cutting-edge AI infrastructure.
• A competitive salary with additional perks.
• Flexible working hours and async-friendly culture.
• High ownership and real impact.
• Open-source, engineering-driven culture.
• Choose your own laptop equipment.
• For US-based candidates, a comprehensive benefits package including 401k match, health, dental, and vision insurance, plus flexible PTO policy.