Performance Engineer Sr

Job description

Dayforce is a global human capital management (HCM) company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, with operations across North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA), and the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region. Our award-winning Cloud HCM platform offers a unified solution database and continuous calculation engine, driving efficiency, productivity and compliance for the global workforce. Our brand promise - Makes Work Life Better™ - Reflects our commitment to employees, customers, partners and communities globally. About the Opportunity: We are seeking a Senior Performance Engineer with a strong software engineering background and deep expertise in profiling, debugging, and optimizing application performance at scale. This is a developer-first role focused on improving system efficiency through code-level analysis, architectural insights, and data-driven optimization. You will work closely with engineering teams to identify performance bottlenecks, optimize execution paths, and ensure our platforms are highly scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient. What you'll get to do: ◦ Execution efficiency ◦ CPU, memory, and I/O utilization ◦ Latency and throughput ◦...