Senior Systems Performance Engineer
$116,000 - $198,000 USD yearly
Trace application I/O to the SSD across NVMe and PCIe interfaces to optimize data center systems performance.
Originally posted 29 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Senior Systems Performance Engineer on Micron's Data Center Workload Engineering team, you will identify and improve the performance of memory and storage products in data center systems. In this hands-on, individual-contributor position, you will collaborate closely with SSD architects, product engineers, and customer teams.
What you'll do
- Conduct repeatable studies of AI, database, virtualization, or distributed-storage workloads on production-class systems.
- Plan tests with clear hypotheses, realistic configurations, and appropriate controls.
- Trace application I/O through the system to the SSD, measuring efficiency, completion time, scaling, tail latency, consistency, and power.
- Identify bottlenecks and test SSD features, system architectures, and competing solutions to provide data-backed recommendations.
- Develop test automation and analysis tools, including AI-assisted workflows, and share findings through engineering reports, presentations, and technical documentation.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with more than 3 years of experience, or a master’s degree with over 1 year of experience.
- Experience in systems performance, application benchmarking, or workload characterization.
- Hands-on experience deploying and debugging applications on Linux.
- Working understanding of the storage I/O path, including Linux I/O, file systems, block storage, NVMe, and PCIe.
- Proficiency with performance-analysis tools and Python or a similar language for problem investigation, test automation, and result explanation.
Nice to have
- Experience testing AI infrastructure, databases, virtualization, high-performance computing, or distributed storage.
- Familiarity with software-defined or object storage solutions such as WEKA, Ceph, Cloudian, or MinIO.
- Experience measuring power, efficiency, quality of service, or SSD behavior under application load.
- Experience building reusable analysis tools or presenting technical findings to wider audiences.
- Working knowledge of AI-enabled productivity, automation, and analytics tools, such as Microsoft Copilot, Claude CoWork, GitHub Copilot, or Power Automate.
Skills: workload characterization, benchmarking, NVMe, block storage, Linux I/O, data center
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This role has been open 7 days — well below the 65-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Storage Systems
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Open roles in category
37
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Median days open
65 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$220k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Micron Technology | All employers we track in this specialty (37 roles · 16 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 37 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 234 | 6484 · 156 employers |
| Median days open | 7 d | 65 d (−58 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $220k |
Skills observed across this category: workload characterization, benchmarking, NVMe, block storage, Linux I/O, data center
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 20 open roles · median 70 d
- AMD · 2 open roles · median 3 d
- MangoBoost · 2 open roles · median 2 d
- Broadcom · 1 open role · median 169 d
- Intel Corporation · 1 open role · median 14 d
- KIOXIA America · 1 open role · median 9 d
How we counted: 37 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Storage Systems) roles from 16 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 6 Nov 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.