Performance Engineer - Benchmarking

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps.

Our partner is looking for a Performance Engineer - Benchmarking based in Germany.

Join a forward-thinking engineering environment where performance, reliability, and scalability are at the center of product development.

In this role, you will design and improve benchmarking systems that help teams understand, measure, and optimize complex distributed systems.

You will build the tools, methodologies, and processes needed to identify regressions, analyze performance changes, and deliver trusted insights.

Working alongside experienced engineers, you will have the opportunity to shape a growing performance function from the ground up.

This position is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, building impactful tooling, and making performance excellence a core engineering practice.

• Accountabilities
• Build and continuously improve benchmarking, profiling, and load-testing systems across cloud infrastructure, databases, and end-to-end environments.
• Design benchmark suites and reference workloads that accurately represent real-world customer usage patterns and evolve alongside product development.
• Establish performance baselines, regression detection systems, and measurement frameworks to identify meaningful changes and ensure reliable results.
• Develop workflows that transform benchmark data into actionable insights, including regression triage, ownership routing, and reproducible performance reports.
• Collaborate closely with database, infrastructure, and product engineering teams to identify bottlenecks and drive measurable performance improvements.
• Create systems that enable teams to run performance tests independently and integrate benchmarking into development workflows.
• Improve the reliability of load generators, benchmark environments, profiling processes, and performance analysis methods.
• Help communicate credible performance metrics internally and externally through accurate, repeatable measurement practices.

Requirements

• Proven experience in performance engineering, benchmarking, and profiling complex distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining benchmarking systems where reproducibility, accuracy, and variance control are critical.
• Strong understanding of systems architecture, including databases, storage, networking, and cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to analyze performance issues, identify root causes, and develop practical technical solutions.
• Experience creating performance tooling, automation workflows, and measurement frameworks.
• Comfortable collaborating across product, infrastructure, and engineering teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a pragmatic, tooling-focused mindset.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to clearly explain technical findings and recommendations.

Benefits

• Fully remote work environment with the flexibility to work from anywhere.
• Co-working allowance or We Work membership to support your preferred workspace.
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), allowing team members to share in the company’s growth.
• Technology allowance to create an ideal home office setup with equipment that supports your productivity.
• Comprehensive health benefits, including full health insurance coverage for employees and support for dependents.
• Annual company off-sites focused on collaboration, connection, and team building.
• Flexible asynchronous working model based on trust and autonomy.
• Annual professional development budget for courses, books, conferences, and other learning opportunities.
• Opportunity to work in a globally distributed engineering team building open-source technology used by developers worldwide.

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We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!

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