Senior Performance Analysis Platform Lead - Profiling Services
NVIDIA · Santa Clara, CA · Today
EngineeringFull-time
What You'll Be Doing
- Set technical direction for a secure, reliable, and extensible performance-analysis platform.
- Align product goals and engineering decisions across frontend, backend, data, security, and infrastructure teams.
- Lead end-to-end design and integration for complex capabilities that span multiple ownership areas.
- Implement difficult cross-boundary work that validates key decisions and unblocks delivery.
- Establish engineering standards for compatibility, quality, performance, and operational readiness.
- Mentor senior engineers, clarify ownership, and drive complete product outcomes from design through release.
What We Need To See
- BS or MS degree or equivalent experience in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree.
- 12+ years of experience building and operating production software, including technical leadership for complex products or major platform capabilities.
- Deep hands-on expertise in backend platforms or distributed systems, strong production ability in at least one language, and enough technical range to align specialists across the product.
- Experience evolving APIs, events, saved state, or stored data without breaking existing users or deployments.
- Practical knowledge of asynchronous failure modes, with depth in real-time collaboration, analytical services, secure multi-user products, workflow orchestration, or a comparable area.
- Able to trace a user workflow across browser and backend behavior, diagnose where it fails, and guide the responsible engineers toward a durable fix.
- A record of turning prototypes or zero-to-one platforms into secure, observable, well-operated products through hands-on cross-team leadership.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers, negotiate technical tradeoffs, and maintain clear ownership while driving an integrated outcome.