.NET Performance Engineer

.NET Performance Engineer
- Global tech. company - UK or Dubai, UAE

Excellent opportunity to join a new team, owning the runtime health and throughput characteristics of the platform. This is a specialist contributor role — you wont be building feature logic, you'll be ensuring the systems that run it do so efficiently, reliably, and at scale.

• .NET / C# development with a demonstrable specialism in performance engineering
• Deep, hands‑on experience with .NET profiling tools — dot Memory, dot Trace, Perf View, Visual Studio Diagnostic Tools, or equivalent
• Strong understanding of .NET memory management internals — GC generations, LOH, pinned objects, finalisation, and how allocation patterns affect runtime behaviour
• Experience optimising high-throughput data processing pipelines — including async/await patterns, Channel, pipelines, and avoiding synchronisation bottlenecks
• Proven ability to diagnose large dataset query performance issues across both relational (SQL) and document databases, including index analysis and query plan interpretation
• Familiarity with ETW, Event Pipe, and diagnostics tooling (dotnet-trace, dotnet-counters, dotnet-dump)
• AI development experience - usage of AI tools (Claude, CoPilot, ChatGPT) - desirable

• Profile, diagnose, and resolve performance bottlenecks across .NET services — from GC pressure and memory leaks to thread contention and I/O saturation
• Own memory management strategy across long-running services — heap allocation patterns, LOH fragmentation, finaliser queues, and GC tuning (gen0/1/2, server vs. workstation, DATAS)
• Investigate and optimise high-throughput data pipelines — batch processing, streaming patterns, buffer management, and back pressure handling
• Identify and resolve large dataset query performance issues — index utilisation, query plan analysis, pagination strategies, and aggregation efficiency across both relational and document databases
• Establish and maintain performance benchmarking infrastructure using Benchmark Dot Net  and load testing tooling — define baselines, track regressions, and gate releases on performance criteria
• Conduct performance-focused code reviews — identify allocations, boxing, closure captures, LINQ misuse, and other common .NET performance anti‑patterns
• Collaborate with product engineers to surface performance constraints early in design, without blocking feature delivery
• Produce clear diagnostics and findings documentation that non-specialists can act on