Software Performance Engineer – AI Agent Focused
About the Role
You will build and improve AI agents that work directly on our production code.
Your main job is to build a specialized AI agent that understands our codebase and helps make it faster, cleaner, simpler, and cheaper to maintain.
This is hands-on work on real code and real problems.
How We Work
- Business impact first: Cheaper, Faster, and Better
- Simple beats complex
- Small changes, shipped fast
- You own your work end to end
- First question is always: do we even need this
- Flat team, no micromanagement
- Decisions can change tomorrow. Adaptability matters.
- No long PRDs One clear goal, discuss, execute
- We ship fast, measure, and improve
Not for You If
- You need detailed instructions
- You dislike ambiguity
- You prefer complex solutions over simple ones
- You do not want to touch Linux or infrastructure
- You just want a safe 9 to 5
What You Will Do
- Use AI agents to optimize, refactor, and remove code
- Feed logs and performance data back into the agent
- Profile applications and find bottlenecks
- Optimize SQL queries and database usage
- Improve deployments and release processes
- Continuously improve internal AI tooling
Tech You Should Be Comfortable With
You do not need to be an expert in everything, but you should be comfortable working with:
- Linux CLI (Required)
- Python
- PHP
- SQL (MySQL or MariaDB)
- Shell scripting
- LLMs
What We Are Looking For
- 1+ year of software engineering experience (new graduates are welcome)
- Strong understanding of performance optimization
- Experience cleaning up legacy or messy codebases
- Practical profiling and debugging skills
- Comfortable working close to infrastructure and deployments
- Thinks in terms of automation
- Can explain technical decisions clearly and simply in English
Nice to Have
- Experience building AI agents
- Experience with large or long-running systems
- CI/CD or deployment automation experience