Engineering Manager, Performance

WHY JOIN ALO

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About the Role

We are seeking anEngineering Manager Performance Engineeringto lead teams focused on improving thespeed scalability and reliabilityof our web and mobile platforms. This role partners closely with application platform and data teams to ensure performance is built into system design development workflows and production operations.

You will set performance strategy guide execution across the stack and help teams turn performance insights into measurable improvements. This role valuestechnical depth thoughtful leadership and cross-team collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the performance engineering strategy establishing multi-quarter roadmaps aligned with business and customer experience goals.
• Lead end-to-end performance architectureacross 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.

Required Qualifications

• 10 Years of professional experience in software engineering with more focus onperformance engineering system optimization or reliability
• 3 Years experience in atechnical leadership or engineering management role
• Strong understanding ofdistributed systems and performance characteristics
• Proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language (e.g. Go Python TypeScript)
• Experience withperformance 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 Qualifications

• Experience operatinglarge-scale consumer-facing or eCommerce systems
• Familiarity withfrontend performance monitoringand Core Web Vitals
• Experience integratingobservability tracing and metricsinto production systems
• Background incloud-native architecturesand distributed infrastructure
• Experience buildingdeveloper-facing performance tools or frameworks
• Familiarity with open-source performance or benchmarking ecosystems

The base salary range for this position is $188000-$235000 per year which represents the current range for the base salary for this exempt position. Please note that actual salaries will vary based on factors including but not limited to location experience and performance. As such on occasion and when applicable there is the possibility that the final agreed-upon base salary may be outside of the upper end of the range. Please also note the range listed is just one component of the companys total rewards package for exempt employees. Other rewards may include performance bonuses long term incentives a PTO policy and many other progressive benefits.