Senior Performance Analysis Platform Lead - Profiling Services - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$200,000 - $322,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 29 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This hands-on role involves guiding architecture, compatibility, and integration across profiling services, resolving complex engineering challenges that span multiple technical areas.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction for a secure, reliable, and extensible performance-analysis platform.
- Align product goals and engineering decisions across frontend, backend, data, security, and infrastructure teams.
- Lead end-to-end design and integration for complex capabilities across multiple ownership areas.
- Implement difficult cross-boundary work to validate key decisions and unblock delivery.
- Establish engineering standards for compatibility, quality, performance, and operational readiness.
- Mentor senior engineers, clarify ownership, and drive complete product outcomes from design through release.
What you'll need
- BS or MS degree or equivalent experience in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree.
- 12+ years of experience building and operating production software, including technical leadership for complex products or major platform capabilities.
- Deep hands-on expertise in backend platforms or distributed systems.
- Experience evolving APIs, events, saved state, or stored data without breaking existing users or deployments.
- Practical knowledge of asynchronous failure modes, with depth in real-time collaboration, analytical services, secure multi-user products, or workflow orchestration.
- Ability to trace a user workflow across browser and backend behavior, diagnose where it fails, and guide responsible engineers toward a durable fix.
- A record of turning prototypes or zero-to-one platforms into secure, observable, well-operated products through hands-on cross-team leadership.
Skills: performance analysis platform, backend platforms, distributed systems, production software, APIs
This role has been open 81 days — well above the 51-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
962
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$236k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (962 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 278 | 962 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 971 | 6118 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 46 d | 51 d (−5 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: performance analysis platform, backend platforms, distributed systems, production software, APIs
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 274 open roles · median 47 d
- Qualcomm · 62 open roles · median 53 d
- AMD · 54 open roles · median 19 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 93 d
- Intel Corporation · 43 open roles · median 12 d
- Cerebras · 36 open roles · median 83 d
How we counted: 962 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 18 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.