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Software Engineer - Performance Engineering - (Senior, Lead)

Salesforce
San Francisco, California, US
$165.6K-$265.2K a year
Full-time

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Job Category : Software Engineering

About Salesforce :

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI + Data + CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way.

And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world.

If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good you’ve come to the right place.

Note : By applying to the performance engineer posting, recruiters and hiring managers across the organization hiring performance engineers will review your resume.

Our goal is for you to apply once and have your resume reviewed by multiple hiring teams.

Salesforce is seeking a Software Engineer, Performance Engineer across multiple teams within our organization! Our mission as the customer company is to ensure confidence with our customers, from Fortune 100 companies to start-ups and nonprofit organizations.

Processing more than 5+ billion transactions per day and growing, performance remains a center focus for innovation.

Your impact :

Join the first-rate team that influences the future expansion of next-generation cloud solutions for speed, scale, and high availability.

  • You will have the chance to create performance experiments, collect and evaluate data.
  • Develop power tools and automation frameworks for continuous integration, performance measurement, and evaluation.
  • Add to the design and velocity of our global products.
  • Optimize our systems end-to-end by advising infrastructure design, server and application development / tuning, solving sophisticated cluster architecture, and any data storage issues that impact features within artificial intelligence, IoT, Platform, APIs, and mobile UI experiences.

If you’re fired up about software performance, automating everything, and working with phenomenal engineers, this is the job for you! If you are a developer that is passionate about performance, or a performance tester that is also interested in contributing performance improvements, we would love to hear from you.

This candidate must have the technical prowess to write fast and efficient code, find inefficiencies and influence others to make performance improvements.

In addition, this engineer needs to measure and demonstrate performance gains in a scientific way, by building / running workloads or simulations.

The candidate should be comfortable in discussing time / space complexity using O(n) notation and engage in a project’s design phase for its performance and scalability considerations.

You are the performance specialist for your scrum team and should be responsible for your team’s performance-related problems on production.

Required Skills :

  • Candidates having a minimum of 5 years of relevant technical experience.
  • Proven experience in system architectures, operating systems, databases, middle tier components such as Java / J2EE, Kafka, and how to optimally utilize such systems to achieve performant and scalable systems.
  • Ability to dig deep into complex pieces of code to understand system design with an eye for performance and scalability bottlenecks with an aim to optimize code.
  • Ability to automate operations such as simulation execution, monitoring, analysis, and a deep desire to do it.
  • Performance Engineering experiences with a distinguished track record on technically demanding projects.
  • Experience in database performance, such as SQL tuning and optimization.
  • Understanding mid-tier performance (e.g., Java profiling) and related tools.
  • Proven experience with load generation / measurement software and concepts (e.g., JMeter, or other custom load generation software) for HTTP, REST, RPC, and similar cloud systems.
  • Solid understanding of database tuning and administration (e.g., Oracle).
  • Working knowledge of operating system design / tuning / tools (e.g., Linux, OProfile).
  • Strong knowledge of Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, or other programming languages.
  • A related technical degree required.

Desired Skills :

  • 3+ years working on multiple releases with short cycles (3-6 months).
  • Familiar with APM software.
  • Familiar with Java Application servers (e.g., Jetty, Resin, Weblogic, WebSphere, JBoss).
  • Familiar with database clustering / scaling technologies (e.g., RAC, Grid, OPS).
  • Familiar with cloud-native architectures.

Benefits & Perks :

Check out our benefits site which explains our various benefits, including wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more.

Salesforce Information :

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We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives such as equal pay, employee resource groups, inclusive benefits, and more.

Learn more about Equality at www.equality.com and explore our company benefits at www.salesforcebenefits.com.

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Salesforce does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Salesforce will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Salesforce.

Salesforce welcomes all.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $165,600 to $265,200. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link : https : / / www.salesforcebenefits.com.

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