Senior Staff Performance Engineer

Owning the end-to-end performance of workloads on a hybrid basis, the full-time Senior Staff Performance Engineer will diagnose performance issues, manage orchestration and inference internals, and ensure optimal throughput and latency for cloud services. Key responsibilities Diagnose performance problems across the serving path, from orchestration to inference internals Isolate issues to specific layers and owners, providing minimal reproducible problem statements for cross-stack findings Build lightweight telemetry and benchmarks to isolate or hand off problems, while mentoring engineers in profiling methods Required qualifications 8+ years of hands-on performance or systems engineering experience Deep understanding of systems fundamentals, including Linux internals and network paths Experience running performance-sensitive workloads on Kubernetes Proficiency in Python and C/C++ for instrumentation and debugging Clear technical writing skills for effective communication across teams