Veza is the pioneer in identity security, purpose-built to answer the fundamental question enterprises face: who can and should take what action on what data. Backed by Greylock and Sequoia.
About the role
As the Senior Staff Software Engineer, Performance (Tech Lead), you will own performance, scalability and reliability across Veza's platform and product areas. You will combine deep hands-on engineering with technical leadership — defining performance standards, driving instrumentation and observability, and working across teams to proactively identify and prevent degradation before it impacts customers. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 12+ years of software engineering experience
- Strong background in performance engineering and scalability
- Experience with distributed systems and microservices
- Proficiency in Golang
- Experience with AWS
- Hands-on with profiling, testing, and monitoring tools
More about this role
As the Senior Staff Software Engineer, Performance (Tech Lead), you will own performance, scalability and reliability across Veza's platform and product areas. You will combine deep hands-on engineering with technical leadership — defining performance standards, driving instrumentation and observability, and working across teams to proactively identify and prevent degradation before it impacts customers.
- Define performance benchmarks, SLAs, and best practices
- Analyze and optimize services, databases, and infrastructure
- Design and execute load, stress, and scalability tests
- Build observability and monitor performance metrics of production systems
- Partner with teams to influence scalable architecture decisions
- Lead root cause analysis and long-term performance improvements
- Mentor engineers and promote performance ownership across teams
- 12+ years of software engineering experience
- Strong background in performance engineering and scalability
- Experience with distributed systems and microservices
- Proficiency in Golang
- Experience with AWS
- Hands-on with profiling, testing, and monitoring tools
- Strong database and query optimization skills
- Experience with...
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