Performance Engineer Database & AI Benchmarking
Principal Performance Engineer responsible for database and AI benchmarking, utilizing skills in Python, Postgres, Machine Learning, and AWS to optimize performance and scalability for a data and AI led world.
A Little About Us
EDB provides a data and AI platform that enables organizations to harness the full power of Postgres for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads across any cloud, anywhere. EDB empowers enterprises to control risk, manage costs and scale efficiently for a data and AI led world. Serving more than 1,500 customers globally and as the leading contributor to the vibrant and fast-growing PostgreSQL community, EDB supports major government organizations, financial services, media and information technology companies. EDB’s data-driven solutions enable customers to modernize legacy systems and break data silos while leveraging enterprise-grade open source technologies. EDB delivers the confidence of up to 99.999% high availability with mission critical capabilities built in such as security, compliance controls, and observability. For more information, visit www. enterprisedb .com
We are hiring a Principal Performance Engineer to make performance a core company competency across our database and AI workloads. You will set the performance engineering strategy—defining benchmarks, realistic workloads, regression detection and gating, and clear executive-ready reporting—and partner with Engineering, Solutions Verification, and Product to ensure we deliver predictable performance at scale. You will influence product direction by identifying systemic bottlenecks, shaping architectural and roadmap decisions, and leading cross-team initiatives
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Posted June 5, 2026