Senior Database Performance Engineer

Role & Responsibilities:

Join NuoDB, a leading innovator of a high-performance, distributed, multi-cloud capable distributed SQL database. As part of Dassault Systemes, our novel database powers the globally renowned 3DEXPERIENCE platform underpinning a suite of product design, process management, and collaborative tools running in the cloud.  NuoDB’s QA team is a distributed team whose mission is to ensure we deliver the best-in-class, high-performance, elastic, distributed, always-on database. 

We are seeking a highly technical Senior Database Performance Engineer to join our team in Waltham, MA. The role requires a self-motivated engineer with expertise in SQL database internals to help us assess, understand, and improve the performance of NuoDB. 

Working in close collaboration with product teams, this role involves ensuring all new features are delivered with the expected performance level, running experiments and advocating for performance enhancements, sharing and reporting results to ensure performance is at the heart of every development project, and integrating and writing new benchmarks and workloads.

• Monitor, assess, and analyze the holistic performance of NuoDB with CI/CD benchmarking tools
• Collaborate with product teams to design and implement performance test plans and benchmarks for new features
• Own and enhance performance coverage by consulting with developers to identify areas for improvement and expansion
• Investigate and diagnose performance issues to identify the root cause of the problems
• Explore NuoDB performance boundaries across various environments: public cloud, on-premise, and Kubernetes
• Evaluate NuoDB performance compared to our competitor’s database using industry-standard benchmarks
• Clearly document performance results and share actionable insights with developers
• Define and share best practices for NuoDB performance tuning
• Foster a culture of collaboration and knowledge-sharing