--- title: "When to Hire a Computer Performance Engineering Team (2025) part 1 of 2" url: https://daily.dev/posts/when-to-hire-a-computer-performance-engineering-team-2025-part-1-of-2-fsgixhcqw source_url: http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2025-08-04/when-to-hire-a-computer-performance-engineering-team-2025-part1.html type: article source: "Brendan Gregg's Blog" published: 2025-08-04T15:02:00.446Z updated: 2025-08-04T15:02:27.935Z tags: ["leadership", "finops"] reading_time: 22 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # When to Hire a Computer Performance Engineering Team (2025) part 1 of 2 **[Brendan Gregg's Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/brendangregg)** · 22 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Performance engineering teams can deliver 5-10% annual infrastructure cost savings, with new teams potentially halving costs in their first two years. The article outlines when companies should hire performance engineers (starting at $1M annual infrastructure spend), what they do (testing, debugging, tuning software/hardware, developing custom tools), and provides hiring guidelines based on infrastructure spend ratios. Performance engineers focus on cost reduction, latency optimization, scalability improvements, and enabling faster development cycles through specialized expertise in system-level optimization. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#leadership](https://daily.dev/tags/leadership), [#finops](https://daily.dev/tags/finops) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/when-to-hire-a-computer-performance-engineering-team-2025-part-1-of-2-fsgixhcqw)