Principal Enterprise & Database Competitive Performance Engineer

What you'll do

• Define and maintain a taxonomy of enterprise workloads including databases, Java, analytics, and virtualization.
• Develop rigorous testing methods for throughput, latency, scaling behavior, and service-level objectives.
• Analyze AMD versus Intel performance across core configuration, frequency, power, memory, and acceleration features.
• Tune the full software stack including compilers, JVMs, kernels, and libraries to ensure realistic comparisons.
• Use profiling tools and hardware counters to diagnose CPU stalls, memory behavior, and software bottlenecks.
• Measure performance-per-watt and total cost of ownership (TCO) drivers like licensing and density.
• Translate technical bottleneck evidence into architecture assumptions for the forecasting and design teams.
• Create deep-dive technical reports and executive content highlighting lead areas, risks, and mitigations.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Extensive hands-on performance engineering experience with enterprise or server applications at scale (preferred).
• Experience with relational/distributed databases, Java/JVM, analytics engines, virtualization, or hypervisors (preferred).
• Ability to tune full software stacks and distinguish CPU limitations from storage, network, runtime, and configuration artifacts (preferred).
• Strong Linux and system administration skills, including scripting and repeatable environment setup (preferred).
• Experience with profiling tools, hardware performance counters, NUMA analysis, and system-level tuning (preferred).
• Clear technical writing and presentation skills with high standards for documentation and reproducibility (preferred).
• Hands-on experience with Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC platforms, Arm architectures, or industry benchmark suites (preferred).