Principal Performance Engineer

Hyderabad - Pakistan

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Ready to shape the future of data

Matillion is the intelligent data integration platform.

Were changing how the world works with data and we need driven curious people who think big and move fast.

We built the Data Productivity Cloud to supercharge data productivity and now were shaping the future of data engineering with Maia our AI-powered virtual data engineers that help teams design build and manage data pipelines at unmatched speed.

Join #TeamGreen where the mission comes first collaboration drives us forward and everyone pulls in the same direction to make a dent in the universe bigger than ourselves.

About the Role

This is the definitive performance ownership role for the Matillion Data Productivity Cloud where you will act as the technical expert who sees the entire system end-to-end. Your mission is to define drive and deliver the performance strategy across the platforms control plane data plane agents workflow engines APIs and UI to ensure it is fast predictable and resilient at massive scale.

You will thrive in a large-scale multi-region environment with a hybrid SaaS model cutting through complexity to build a clear performance narrative that drives tangible engineering outcomes. This critical leadership role directly shapes both the customer experience and the companys bottom line by ensuring the platform remains efficient and stable as we continue our aggressive growth trajectory.

What you will be doing

Define and drive the Performance Vision and Strategy establishing clear measurable targets for latency throughput cost efficiency and workload scalability across the Data Productivity Cloud.
Conduct deep-dive profiling and complex root cause analysis across distributed systems investigating API latency memory/CPU pressure queue back-pressure and network bottlenecks.
Build maintain and own repeatable scalable benchmarking frameworks covering agent performance concurrency workflow orchestration throughput and end-to-end user journeys.
Drive significant Cost Performance and Efficiency improvements by utilizing telemetry and empirical data to reduce runtime operational costs (compute memory storage network).
Act as the technical performance expert to influence feature design technical architecture and implementation patterns across engineering teams to prevent regressions and embed performance guardrails.

What we are looking for

Proven experience as a Principal Engineer specializing in performance for large distributed systems ideally within a high-growth SaaS or data platform environment.
Deep expertise in Java and Spring Boot with strong JVM performance engineering skills including GC tuning heap/thread optimization and low-latency design.
Strong systems-level understanding of technologies like Kubernetes container runtimes Python performance network behavior and cloud architecture (AWS).
The ability to influence engineers across teams without direct authority shaping architecture patterns threading models and concurrency to eliminate bottlenecks.
Expertise with modern observability stacks (e.g. OTel Prometheus Grafana Datadog) and hands-on experience designing and running meaningful load chaos and stress scenarios.

At Matillion were here to do something hard - change the way the world works with data and build a great company along the way. Big bold goals arent for the faint-hearted and we dont shy away from them. But we dont do it alone. No egos no politics - just great people working together guided by our six core values;

- Confidence without arrogance

- Working with integrity

- Customer obsessed

- Innovate and demand quality

- Bias for action

- We care

We operate a flexible working culture that promotes work-life balance with benefits including:

- Company Equity

- 27 days paid time off

- 12 days of Company Holiday

- 5 days paid volunteering leave

- Group Mediclaim (GMC)

- Enhanced parental leave policies

- MacBook Pro

- Access to various tools to aid your career development

More about Matillion

Thousands of enterprises including Cisco London Stock Exchange Group EDF and Slack trust Matillion for a wide range of use cases from insights and operational analytics to data science machine learning and AI. We are a truly global workforce dual headquartered in Manchester UK and Denver Colorado with expanding offices in Hyderabad India along with valuable remote colleagues around the world.

We are keen to hear from prospective Matillioners so even if you dont feel you match all the criteria please apply and a member of our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch. Alternatively if youre interested in Matillion but dont see a suitable role please email emailprotected.

Find out more about life on #TeamGreen here.

Matillion is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all of our team. Matillion prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. Matillion does not discriminate on the basis of race colour religion age sex national origin disability status genetics sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Ready to shape the future of dataMatillion is the intelligent data integration platform.Were changing how the world works with data and we need driven curious people who think big and move fast.We built the Data Productivity Cloud to supercharge data productivity and now were shaping the future of ...