Senior Database Performance QA Architect
Dassault Systèmes
Quality Assurance, IT
Waltham, MA, USA
USD 200k-270k / year
Posted on Sep 27, 2025
Role & Responsibilities:
Join NuoDB, a leading innovator of a high-performance, distributed, multi-cloud capable distributed SQL database. As part of Dassault Systemes, our novel database powers the globally renowned 3DEXPERIENCE platform underpinning a suite of product design, process management, and collaborative tools running in the cloud
We are seeking a Senior Database Performance QA Architect to join our team in Waltham, MA. This is a high-impact, hands-on individual contributor role where your technical leadership and benchmarking efforts will help unlock the potential of NuoDB and allow Dassault Systemes meet their high growth ambitions.
In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at 3DS are based on merit, qualifications and abilities. 3DS is committed to a policy of non-discrimination and equal opportunity for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or medical or common conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, familial status, national origin, ancestry, age (40 and above), disability, veteran status, military service, application for military service, genetic information, receipt of free medical care, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. 3DS will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable state laws and local ordinances. We are committed to fair employment practices and will evaluate all candidates based on their qualifications, regardless of past arrest or conviction history.
Compensation & Benefits
Dassault Systèmes offers an excellent salary with potential for bonus, commensurate with experience. Benefits include a choice of plans providing comprehensive coverage for medical, dental, vision care for employee & dependents as well as employee life, short & long term disability, tuition reimbursement, immediate 401K enrollment, 401K match (50 cents on the dollar, up to the first 8% of your eligible compensation that you contribute based on match eligibility criteria), flexible time off policy, and 10 paid holidays.
Salary pay Transprency
Compensation for the role will be commensurate with experience. The total expected compensation range will be between $200000 and $270000, representing the base salary (or annualized salary based on estimated hourly compensation) and target bonus.
Join NuoDB, a leading innovator of a high-performance, distributed, multi-cloud capable distributed SQL database. As part of Dassault Systemes, our novel database powers the globally renowned 3DEXPERIENCE platform underpinning a suite of product design, process management, and collaborative tools running in the cloud
We are seeking a Senior Database Performance QA Architect to join our team in Waltham, MA. This is a high-impact, hands-on individual contributor role where your technical leadership and benchmarking efforts will help unlock the potential of NuoDB and allow Dassault Systemes meet their high growth ambitions.
- Lead the way on improving our understanding of NuoDB performance and use your experience and actionable technical insights to help steer development on a multi-year project with ambitious performance and scalability goals
- Own end-to-end database performance evaluation and work cross-functionally to identify targets and define KPIs
- Investigate system performance issues and deep dive with NuoDB development and application teams on root cause analysis
- Collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to design and develop test plans and benchmarks for new features
- Build automated performance testing and analysis tools for our CI/CD pipeline
- Evaluate NuoDB in comparison with competitor databases
- Define best practices for NuoDB performance tuning and share them with the vibrant NuoDB user community within 3DS
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Must have 10+ years of experience working as a Performance Engineer on a distributed product, ideally on another distributed database
- A sharp QA mindset, strong analytical skills, and the ability to break down complex problems into simpler components
- Strong experience with Linux and system/resource diagnostic tools such as perf
- Experience in SQL, OO Python programming, and shell scripting (i.e., Bash)
- Experience writing reliable performance benchmarks and workloads
In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at 3DS are based on merit, qualifications and abilities. 3DS is committed to a policy of non-discrimination and equal opportunity for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or medical or common conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, familial status, national origin, ancestry, age (40 and above), disability, veteran status, military service, application for military service, genetic information, receipt of free medical care, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. 3DS will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable state laws and local ordinances. We are committed to fair employment practices and will evaluate all candidates based on their qualifications, regardless of past arrest or conviction history.
Compensation & Benefits
Dassault Systèmes offers an excellent salary with potential for bonus, commensurate with experience. Benefits include a choice of plans providing comprehensive coverage for medical, dental, vision care for employee & dependents as well as employee life, short & long term disability, tuition reimbursement, immediate 401K enrollment, 401K match (50 cents on the dollar, up to the first 8% of your eligible compensation that you contribute based on match eligibility criteria), flexible time off policy, and 10 paid holidays.
Salary pay Transprency
Compensation for the role will be commensurate with experience. The total expected compensation range will be between $200000 and $270000, representing the base salary (or annualized salary based on estimated hourly compensation) and target bonus.
