Performance Engineer, Backend

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Performance Engineer, Backend in South Africa.

In this role, you will operate at massive scale, optimizing backend systems that serve tens of billions of page views every month across globally distributed infrastructures. You will dive deep into application performance, database efficiency, and caching strategies to identify and eliminate bottlenecks that directly impact user experience. Working cross-functionally with product, platform, and systems engineers, you will bring a performance-first mindset into architecture decisions, code reviews, and incident resolution. Your work will have immediate, measurable impact, improving speed, reliability, and scalability across a broad product ecosystem. This position offers a unique opportunity to solve complex performance challenges in real-world, high-traffic environments. You will thrive in an asynchronous, remote-fir...