Senior Staff Software Engineer, Performance (Tech Lead) - Veza

As the Senior Staff Software Engineer, Performance (Tech Lead), you will own performance, scalability and reliability across Veza's platform and product areas. You will combine deep hands-on engineering with technical leadership — defining performance standards, driving instrumentation and observability, and working across teams to proactively identify and prevent degradation before it impacts customers.What You’ll DoDefine performance benchmarks, SLAs, and best practicesAnalyze and optimize services, databases, and infrastructureDesign and execute load, stress, and scalability testsBuild observability and monitor performance metrics of production systemsPartner with teams to influence scalable architecture decisionsLead root cause analysis and long-term performance improvementsMentor engineers and promote performance ownership across teams