Principal Performance Engineer (Database & AI Benchmarking)

Jobgether • Switzerland

Remote

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AI Summary

Jobgether is seeking a Principal Performance Engineer for a senior technical role in Switzerland. The position involves defining and driving performance excellence across large-scale database and AI systems in a distributed, cloud-native environment. The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of experience in performance engineering, systems engineering, SRE, or benchmarking roles, with expertise in performance concepts, database systems, and benchmarking frameworks.

Key Highlights

Define and lead performance engineering strategy

Design and maintain repeatable benchmarks

Collaborate with engineering, product, and field teams

Key Responsibilities

Define and lead the performance engineering strategy across database and AI workloads

Design and maintain repeatable, end-to-end benchmarks for OLTP, OLAP, and mixed database workloads as well as AI inference and pipeline systems

Collaborate with engineering, product, and field teams to define performance targets, acceptance criteria, and architectural improvements

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Technical Skills Required

Performance engineering Systems engineering SRE Benchmarking Database systems Python Go Bash scripting Linux performance profiling tools

Benefits & Perks

Fully remote role

Flexible working environment

Competitive compensation

Access to wellness initiatives

Employee support programs

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Nice to Have

Vector databases

PostgreSQL tuning

AI inference pipelines

GPU profiling

RAG workflows

Storage/network performance optimization

Job Description

This senior technical role focuses on defining and driving performance excellence across large-scale database and AI systems in a distributed, cloud-native environment. You will be responsible for establishing benchmarking strategy, ensuring performance predictability, and building rigorous frameworks that measure how systems behave under real-world workloads. Acting as a key technical authority, you will collaborate closely with engineering, product, and field teams to translate performance insights into architectural decisions and roadmap direction. The role combines deep systems expertise with hands-on engineering, requiring both strategic thinking and practical execution. You will design scalable benchmarking systems for database and AI workloads, ensuring results are reproducible, measurable, and actionable. This is a high-impact position for someone passionate about system-level performance, data-driven engineering decisions, and influencing technology at scale.

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