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Staff Backend Engineer, Performance Enablement
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Remote, Poland
Our take: The real work here is building a self-serve performance platform that engineering teams own independently, while setting technical direction and winning influence across groups you do not manage.
If you love building the platform that lets other teams solve their own performance problems, this is your kind of work: reusable testing and analysis capabilities that scale beyond any one team. You will set a multi-quarter direction, ship large backend capabilities with real autonomy, and earn influence across engineering without anyone reporting to you. The win here is quiet and measurable: each new team needing less help than the last.
Needs
- platform systems design
- building backend software
- performance monitoring
- finding bottlenecks
- roadmap setting
- influencing peers
Rewards
- real ownership
- visible impact
- growing engineers
- measurable adoption
- shaping the vision
Demands
- quiet influence
- cross-team coordination
- occasional on-call
- explaining trade-offs
- async communication
Grows
- technical strategy
- taming complexity
- leading AI practices
- cross-group decisions
Values
- self-serve independence
- craftsmanship
- transparency
- learning culture
- reliable products
Drains
- stakeholder alignment
- priority negotiation
- onboarding each team
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