Principal Performance Engineer (Database & AI Benchmarking)

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 enterprisedb .com/" data-testid="link-with-safety" data-renderer-mark="true">www. enterprisedb .com **Candidate Note: This position is 100% remote for candidates based in EU/UK** 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 What you will be doing: Benchmark design & execution: Build and maintain repeatable end-to-end benchmarks for database and AI workloads Database performance engineering: Evaluate throughput, latency, concurrency, scalability, and stability across OLTP/OLAP and mixed workloads