ALO · 1 day ago
Engineering Manager, Performance
San Ramon, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$188K/yr - $235K/yr
10+ years expALO is a company focused on mindful movement that enhances the lives of yogis both on and off the mat. They are seeking an Engineering Manager, Performance Engineering to lead teams in improving the speed, scalability, and reliability of their web and mobile platforms. This role involves setting performance strategy, guiding execution, and ensuring performance insights lead to measurable improvements.
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Responsibilities
Define and evolve the performance engineering strategy, establishing multi-quarter roadmaps aligned with business and customer experience goals
Lead end-to-end performance architecture across applications, services, infrastructure, and cloud platforms, ensuring performance is considered at every layer
Establish performance standards, KPIs, and benchmarking methodologies, including latency, throughput, error rates, and user experience metrics such as Core Web Vitals
Guide performance engineering practices for web and mobile, including load, stress, endurance, and real-user performance testing
Drive frontend and backend performance improvements, supporting optimization across APIs, services, databases, caching, networking, and application code
Design and evolve performance tooling, including profiling, tracing, telemetry, and benchmarking frameworks that provide actionable insights
Embed performance into development workflows, integrating measurement and regression detection into CI/CD pipelines
Partner with platform, application, and data teams, ensuring performance considerations are incorporated early in architecture and design decisions
Analyze and resolve complex performance issues, using structured experimentation, data analysis, and systems-level debugging
Lead and develop performance engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and an inclusive, collaborative environment focused on continuous improvement
Qualification
Required
10+ Years of professional experience in software engineering with more focus on performance engineering, system optimization, or reliability
3+ Years experience in a technical leadership or engineering management role
Strong understanding of distributed systems and performance characteristics
Proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language (e.g., Go, Python, TypeScript)
Experience with performance testing, benchmarking, and monitoring tools
Ability to analyze performance data, design experiments, and translate findings into delivered improvements
Strong communication skills and experience collaborating across frontend, backend, and platform teams
Preferred
Experience operating large-scale, consumer-facing or eCommerce systems
Familiarity with frontend performance monitoring and Core Web Vitals
Experience integrating observability, tracing, and metrics into production systems
Background in cloud-native architectures and distributed infrastructure
Experience building developer-facing performance tools or frameworks
Familiarity with open-source performance or benchmarking ecosystems
Benefits
Performance bonuses
Long term incentives
A PTO policy
Many other progressive benefits
Company
ALO
We are ALO.
501-1000 employees
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