Data Platform Telemetry & Performance Engineer

Provide operational visibility and performance support for pipelines, data marts and cloud databases, including replication and indexing health.

Key responsibilities

• Implement dashboards and alerts for data freshness, pipeline throughput, replication lag, query latency and resource saturation.
• Tune SQL queries, indexes, table layouts and cloud-database configurations.
• Monitor data-mart replication and diagnose consistency or performance failures.
• Instrument services and jobs using Grafana, Azure Application Insights or approved observability tools.
• Establish performance baselines, investigate regressions and recommend corrective actions.
• Maintain operational runbooks, alert ownership and escalation procedures.

Required technical capabilities

• Minimum experience: 5+ years in database/platform performance engineering, observability or data-platform operations.
• Database performance tuning, indexing and query-plan analysis.
• Grafana, Azure Application Insights or comparable monitoring platforms.
• Cloud database operations and capacity monitoring.
• Replication, data-mart and ETL/ELT operational concepts.
• Metrics, logs, alert design and incident diagnosis.
• Clear evidence-based reporting of performance findings and changes.

Preferred experience

• Databricks/Spark observability and Delta Lake optimization.
• OpenTelemetry and cross-service correlation.
• Automated performance regression checks.
• Operational dashboards, alerts and ownership matrix.
• Performance baselines and prioritized tuning backlog.
• Implemented indexing/tuning changes with before-and-after evidence.
• Replication and database incident runbooks.

Primary interfaces

Works with Data Engineering, Python Data Engineering, cloud/platform operations and database owners.

What We Have For You

Great compensation package, medical benefit for you and your family, free lunch, annual performance-tied increments & performance recognition awards and a great lean and agile work culture!

Convo endorses a culture of diversity in all aspects and aims to build a diverse team of amazing individuals!