Staff Backend Engineer, Performance Enablement

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🇵🇱 Poland – Remote

💵 zł328k - zł492k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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📋 Description

• Define the team's technical vision and multi-quarter roadmap with the Engineering Manager • Identify opportunities for impact across R&D and advocate for technical priorities with stakeholders • Design and build reusable platform capabilities for performance testing, analysis, reporting, and trend visibility • Solve complex technical problems and ship large capabilities with minimal guidance • Turn lessons from early team engagements into reusable capabilities, documentation, and onboarding • Coordinate with peer teams across Developer Experience, Infrastructure Platforms, and product groups • Lead AI-first development practices, including AI skills and agent-assisted performance workflows • Mentor engineers in performance engineering, platform design, and technical decision-making • Serve as a performance expert and provide technical guidance across multiple groups • Participate in on-call or operational support where required

🎯 Requirements

• Staff-level backend or platform engineering experience, including setting technical direction across a team and the teams around it • A track record of building and operating performance testing and analysis systems, with an understanding of where bottlenecks appear and how to find them • Experience leading or anchoring a performance enablement or platform function and achieving measurable adoption of internal tooling by influencing engineers and leaders who don't report to you • Experience defining and delivering a multi-quarter technical strategy or roadmap with engineering leadership • An AI-first development mindset demonstrated across the software lifecycle, including shaping how a team uses AI • Hands-on experience with load and performance testing tools such as k6 or equivalent, Kubernetes, and Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, or similar cloud infrastructure • Clear written, asynchronous communication, including explaining performance trade-offs to engineers and leadership • All team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being • Flexible Paid Time Off • Team Member Resource Groups • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan • Growth and Development Fund • Parental Leave

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