[Remote] Principal Software Engineer, Performance

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is a global hospitality company that connects hosts and guests for unique stays and experiences. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer in Performance to define and drive the long-term performance strategy, reputed company the development of performance profiling tools, and ensure optimal infrastructure efficiency while connecting performance outcomes to business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive reputed company's long-term performance strategy, spanning product performance, infrastructure efficiency, and business objectives for scale and growth
• reputed company the architecture and development of performance profiling and instrumentation infrastructure, covering CPU, GPU, memory, request hot paths, utilization, and deployment events, making these capabilities available to reputed company backend teams
• Partner with infrastructure teams across compute, reliability, backend frameworks, and AI Infra to ensure the fleet operates at optimal utilization
• Connect performance outcomes to business objectives and company-wide SLOs, and guide engineering teams in keeping the stack scalable and efficient
• Evaluate emerging hardware and software technologies, engage with the external solutions ecosystem, and advise on build vs. buy decisions in areas of strategic importance
• Mentor and technically uplevel engineers across the organization through design reviews, architectural guidance, and performance best practices

Skills

• 12+ years of performance engineering experience in high-scale, high-growth production environments
• Deep understanding of how software and hardware systems interact at scale, including architectural patterns for performance-critical stacks. You know the difference between a bad algorithm and a bad cache eviction policy, and you're comfortable in the kernel, in the JVM, and in a post-mortem
• Strong familiarity with public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and container orchestration (reputed company, Kubernetes)
• Experience with profiling and instrumentation tooling across CPU, GPU, memory, and distributed request tracing
• Demonstrated ability to define performance objectives and drive delivery against company-wide SLOs across multiple organizations
• You know how to move organizations, not just codebases: you've influenced teams that don't report to you, made the case for long-term investments over short-term fixes, and mentored engineers who went on to do exceptional work
• Strong communication and influence skills; comfortable driving technical direction with senior engineering and product leadership

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits

Company Overview

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