Senior Performance Engineer
ClickUp
8 days ago
Washington, DC, USA
Senior
H1B Sponsor
Base Salary
$160k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end performance analysis across frontend, backend, and infrastructure layers.
- Profile and optimize application code, APIs, and database queries for maximum efficiency.
- Investigate and resolve performance bottlenecks using observability and monitoring tools.
- Collaborate with development, DevOps, and product teams to design scalable, high-performance solutions.
- Build and maintain performance dashboards, metrics, and automated monitoring systems.
- Conduct root cause analysis for performance incidents and drive long-term improvements.
- Develop and implement strategies for continuous performance optimization and capacity planning.
- Stay current with industry trends, tools, and best practices in performance engineering.
Requirements
- Strong experience with complex web application debugging, profiling, and performance optimization.
- Deep understanding of browser performance traces, network analysis, and client-side profiling.
- Proven background in performance engineering, including bottleneck analysis and root cause identification.
- Hands-on experience with APM and observability tools (e.g., Datadog RUM, APM, DBM).
- Proficiency in analyzing and interpreting network HAR files and performance metrics.
- Experience optimizing across multiple application layers (frontend, backend, API, database).
- Solid knowledge of logging, monitoring, and alerting best practices for both frontend and backend systems.
- Familiarity with performance testing tools and frameworks (e.g., memlab, Chrome Dev tools).
- Strong understanding of system architecture, distributed systems, and cloud environments (AWS, Kubernetes, CDN).
- Passion for delivering a fast, stable, and scalable user experience.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBAngularAWSDatadogJavaScriptKubernetesPostgreSQLReactTypeScript
Categories
BackendDevOpsFrontendTesting