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

ServiceNow • Santa Clara, CA

1d • $190,900 - $334,100 • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong background in performance engineering and scalability
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices
• Proficiency in Golang
• Experience with AWS
• Hands-on with profiling, testing, and monitoring tools
• Strong database and query optimization skills

Nice To Haves

• Experience with large-scale SaaS platforms
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and observability tools
• Exposure to security or identity systems

Responsibilities

• Define performance benchmarks, SLAs, and best practices
• Analyze and optimize services, databases, and infrastructure
• Design and execute load, stress, and scalability tests
• Build observability and monitor performance metrics of production systems
• Partner with teams to influence scalable architecture decisions
• Lead root cause analysis and long-term performance improvements
• Mentor engineers and promote performance ownership across teams

Benefits

• equity (when applicable)
• variable/incentive compensation and benefits
• health plans, including flexible spending accounts
• a 401(k) Plan with company match
• ESPP
• matching donations
• a flexible time away plan and family leave programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees