Platform Performance Engineer (m/f/x) with an AI-first mindset

Your role at Dynatrace

Join the Quality, Security, and Privacy Team at Dynatrace.

Our team plays a critical role in delivering a high-quality product experience while ensuring our customers' data is safer with us than anywhere else. We achieve this by embedding performance best practices and analysis workflows throughout the software development lifecycle.
We’re looking for Platform Performance Engineers with an AI-first mindset—engineers who don’t just analyze systems, but continuously look for ways to automate, augment, and scale their work using AI and intelligent agents.

What you'll do

• Partner with engineering teams to monitor, analyze, and optimize performance across complex distributed systems.
• Leverage AI tools and agent-based workflows to accelerate root cause analysis, identify patterns, and reduce manual toil.
• Drive consistency and excellence in performance practices by coaching teams and promoting scalable, automated approaches.
• Agentify performance workflows—from regression detection to anomaly analysis—to enable continuous, self-improving systems.
• Integrate automated performance testing and regression detection into CI/CD pipelines.
• Dogfood the Dynatrace platform to uncover performance issues and provide data-driven, actionable insights.
• Contribute to internal tooling, playbooks, and knowledge sharing to help teams resolve issues faster and more autonomously.

What will help you succeed

• Passion for performance optimization, distributed systems, and scalability challenges
• An AI-first mindset: you actively explore how AI can accelerate engineering workflows and reduce manual effort
• Curiosity and drive to automate and rethink how work gets done
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to influence engineering teams
• Experience with Java / Spring Boot / Go is a nice to have
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures is a plus
• Experience building or extending automation, tooling, or agents (e.g., scripts, pipelines, AI-assisted workflows) is also a plus

Why you will love being a Dynatracer

• Dynatrace is a leader in unified observability and security.
• We provide a culture of excellence with competitive compensation packages designed to recognize and reward performance.
• Our employees work with the largest cloud providers, including AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cloud, and other leading partners worldwide to create strategic alliances.
• You'll get to work at the forefront of innovation with Dynatrace Intelligence—the industry's first agentic operations system. Bringing together deterministic and agentic AI, it helps teams understand what's happening, why it matters, and what to do next— automatically
• Over 50% of the Fortune 100 companies are current customers of Dynatrace.
• For this position we offer exclusive relocation support to our R&D Headquarters in Linz, ranked among the top seven most sustainable cities in the world, where cutting-edge innovation intersects with an exceptional quality of life and affordable living costs! Click this link to find out more.

Compensation and Rewards

• Due to legal reasons, we are obliged to list a salary range for this position, which is €61,000 up to €92,000 gross per year based on full-time employment (38.5 h/week).
• We’ve listed the salary range for transparency, but if your experience and skills bring unique value, we’d still love to hear from you—please apply even if you’re outside the range.