3h ago

Director, Platform & Performance Engineering

United States

$200k-$280k / yearest.

full-timedirector RemoteSoftware

🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll build and lead a high-performing backend platform engineering team that accelerates scalability, performance, and operational resilience for our SaaS CLM platform. Your core impact is driving measurable improvements in latency, error rates, and infrastructure cost while enabling rapid product growth. We offer a remote-first culture with flexible PTO and quarterly wellness days.

🎯 What You'll Do

  • Own and drive the performance, scalability, and reliability roadmap for the backend platform.
  • Establish load testing, benchmarking, and regression detection in CI/CD pipelines.
  • Lead database optimization strategies for MySQL and PostgreSQL in AWS RDS/Aurora.
  • Set KPIs for performance, reliability, and improve MTTD/MTTR for performance incidents.

📋 Requirements

  • 12+ years of backend engineering experience with senior technical leadership roles.
  • Deep hands-on expertise with Java (JEE, Spring, or comparable frameworks).
  • Strong proficiency in Python for tooling and automation.
  • Proven experience optimizing relational databases (MySQL and PostgreSQL) at scale.

✨ Nice to Have

  • Experience supporting enterprise SaaS platforms at significant scale.
  • Familiarity with performance tuning and profiling tools.
  • Background in enterprise workflow or data-intensive platforms.

🎁 Benefits & Perks

  • 🏖️ Flexible PTO
  • 🧘 Quarterly wellness day
  • 🌍 Remote-first culture
  • 📈 Professional development opportunities
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