Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Staff Performance Engineer to lead and scale performance engineering practices for our cloud-native SaaS platform. This role is responsible for driving performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency at an organizational level, with a strong focus on serverless and distributed architectures.

You will define performance engineering strategy, build scalable and AI-driven performance platforms, and influence architectural decisions across teams. The role requires deep expertise in up-to-date cloud environments and a strong focus on embedding performance into the entire software lifecycle, from development to production.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and drive organization-wide performance engineering strategy aligned with business KPIs, customer experience, and cost efficiency
- Architect and build scalable, self-service performance engineering platforms enabling teams to run performance tests and analysis independently
- Design and implement AI-driven performance engineering solutions including anomaly detection,



predictive performance insights, adaptive load testing, and automated optimization recommendations
- Lead the design and execution of advanced performance testing strategies for serverless, distributed, and event-driven systems
- Establish and standardize performance benchmarks, SLAs, SLOs, and KPIs across services
- Drive integration of performance testing and validation into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous performance engineering (shift-left approach)
- Analyze system-wide performance bottlenecks including latency, cold starts, concurrency limits, and resource utilization across distributed systems
- Collaborate with engineering, SRE, and architecture teams to influence system design for scalability, resilience, and performance optimization
- Own performance in production environments by leveraging observability tools, distributed tracing, and real-time monitoring systems
- Implement intelligent obse

📌 Staff Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 MontyCloud
📍 Bengaluru