.NET Performance Engineer
Initialize-IT ·initialize-it.com
Apply direct.NET Performance Engineer- Global tech. company - UK - remote
Excellent opportunity to join a new team, owning the runtime health and throughput characteristics of the platform. This is a specialist contributor role - you won't be building feature logic, you'll be ensuring the systems that run it do so efficiently, reliably, and at scale.
Skills/experience
- AI development experience - usage of AI tools (Claude, CoPilot, ChatGPT)
- 4-5+ years of .NET/C# development with a demonstrable specialism in performance engineering
- Deep, hands-on experience with .NET profiling tools - dotMemory, dotTrace, PerfView, 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, EventPipe, and diagnostics tooling (dotnet-trace, dotnet-counters, dotnet-dump)
Duties:
- 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 backpressure 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 BenchmarkDotNet 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
Excellent company, team and opportunities, apply now!
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