Home Jobs Performance Engineer Performance Engineer Jobs Performance Engineers measure, analyse, and improve the performance of production systems — latency, throughput, memory, GC, cold start, frontend Core Web Vitals. The role requires deep systems-level intuition (CPU, memory hierarchy, network) and rigorous experimental methodology.
Salary by Experience Level Junior
$110,000 – $145,000
per year
Mid-Level
$150,000 – $215,000
per year
Senior
$225,000 – $340,000
per year
Required Skills Profilers (perf, async-profiler, eBPF, Instruments) Distributed tracing analysis Load testing (k6, Gatling, Vegeta) JVM / V8 / CPython internals Linux performance (CPU, memory, IO, networking) Frontend performance (Core Web Vitals, RUM) Statistical analysis of benchmarks Cost-per-request optimisation
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