Performance Engineer - Benchmarking

Team: IT

Location: South Africa

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

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 WeWork 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.