Salesforce · 1 day ago
Senior / Lead Performance engineer
California - San Francisco
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$172K/yr - $260K/yrSalesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. The Senior / Lead Performance Engineer will lead performance efforts for multi-team projects, design traffic models, and implement sophisticated automation and monitoring strategies while ensuring product reliability.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingCRMSaaSSales EnablementSoftware
Responsibilities
Lead performance efforts for multi-team projects. Design traffic models, establish scale goals, and implement sophisticated automation and monitoring strategies
Act as the expert in database tuning and system optimizations. Drive design meetings by questioning implementation choices and proposing performant alternatives
Rapidly build POCs to test ideas. Lead research spikes and "fail fast" prototypes to address critical scale issues
Partner with Product Managers to align features with customer usage patterns. Ensure performance is a core part of the Definition of Done (DoD)
The Multiplier Effect: Coach AMTS, MTS, and SMTS engineers. Lead code and design reviews, sharing deep product expertise to elevate the team’s technical bar
Manage features from initial design through production deployment and post-release support. Own the resolution of the most complex, systemic performance issues
Qualification
Required
Regular use of AI tools for automation and performance work
Experience as a developer building platforms and applications
Experience in building automation tools
Coding experience in Java, C, Python, Ruby on Rails and knowledge of modular design
Deep knowledge of Java and its internals, including JVM performance tuning, GC mechanisms, and familiarity with Java Profiling (e.g., JProfiler, YourKit)
Expert-level understanding of key performance metrics associated with throughput, latency, memory, CPU, disk & network, and the ability to debug bottlenecks associated with any of them
Hands-on experience in open source load test tools
Expert in profiling, instrumentation, load generation tools, and database optimization
Preferred
A good understanding of enterprise architecture principles is strongly preferred
Familiarity with NoSQL data stores and transport systems such as Spark, Storm, Cassandra, Kafka is a plus
Benefits
Time off programs
Medical
Dental
Vision
Mental health support
Paid parental leave
Life and disability insurance
401(k)
Employee stock purchasing program
Company
Salesforce
Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.
Founded in 1999
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$65.38MKey Investors
Starboard ValueEmergence CapitalHalsey Minor
2022-10-18Post Ipo Equity
2004-06-23IPO
2003-01-01Series Unknown· $1M
Leadership Team
Arundhati Bhattacharya
Chairman & Ceo Salesforce India
Marc Benioff
Chair & CEO
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