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Ridgeline

Senior Staff Performance Engineer

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about 6 hours ago
Dublin, IrelandSenior / Staff+
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Responsibilities

  • Lead deep performance investigations across distributed services and large-scale production environments.
  • Analyze latency, throughput, saturation, concurrency, and failure modes.
  • Partner with platform and infrastructure teams to optimize runtime behavior and resource utilization.
  • Define performance standards and benchmarking strategies across engineering organizations.
  • Influence architectural decisions to improve scalability and operational efficiency.
  • Design AI-assisted performance workflows for scalable validation.
  • Develop performance testing frameworks that model real-world workloads.
  • Mentor engineers and promote technical excellence.
  • Drive a culture of ownership and continuous learning.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience with expertise in distributed systems.
  • Strong understanding of networking, concurrency, and scaling patterns.
  • Proven track record of resolving performance bottlenecks in production environments.
  • Experience in designing performance testing strategies for distributed systems.
  • Expertise with observability and performance analysis tools.
  • Strong systems-level thinking balancing reliability and cost efficiency.
  • Ability to influence technical direction across teams.
  • Excellent communication skills in cross-functional environments.
  • Willingness to learn cutting-edge technologies and AI workflows.
  • Aptitude for solving complex technical challenges.

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