Salesforce · 13 hours ago
Performance Engineer LMTS
California - San Francisco
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$172K/yr - $260K/yr
8+ years expSalesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. They are looking for a talented performance engineer to develop tests, tools, frameworks, and platforms to ensure the Automation Platform toolset remains highly performing, scalable, and reliable. This role involves collaborating with teams to analyze and optimize performance and scalability of features within an Agile environment.
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Responsibilities
Work closely with management, product owners, and engineers to understand product requirements and design appropriate performance test plans to verify features performance and scalability requirements
Measure, analyze, and optimize the performance and scalability of new and existing features within an Agile development environment
Find performance bottlenecks in features across all areas of the cloud, diagnose the issues, fix them, and verify and test your solutions with the owning team
Design and implement scalability, stability, stress, reliability, availability, and longevity tests using industry standard tools and custom developed software and scripts
Provide accurate scoping, clear strategies, and milestones for performance tests
Communicate status, risks to test complete dates, and offer mitigation strategies to ensure on-time delivery of all committed projects to cross functional teams
Reproduce, diagnose, and resolve critical customer situations requiring special performance tests or simulations
Collaborating and planning with development scrum teams to identify, prioritize, and mitigate performance risks of features being shipped every release
Review automation implementations and encourage sound design principles
Review test plans, results analysis, capacity planning guides for in–flight releases
Coordinate technical presentations and training for capacity planning guides
Report weekly trends highlighting product performance and team status against committed milestones and projects
Qualification
Required
8+ years of software development experience with specific experience in benchmark testing, performance analysis, troubleshooting, and optimizing enterprise software
Proven development experience in Java and SQL
Outstanding attention to detail and communication skills, both written and verbal
Ability to interpret technical data, and analyze performance results using applicable statistics concepts
Ability to identify / resolve system bottlenecks
Ability to identify potential limitations in software architectures
Ability to write clear and concise technical documents
Excellent troubleshooting and reasoning skills
Understanding of throughput, latency, memory and CPU utilization
Understanding concepts of multi-threading, cache, memory management, Java Virtual Machine, JIT
Experience with scripting tools such as JMeter, and profiling tools such as JProfiler and YourKit
Working knowledge of AJAX, HTTP, REST, JSON
Working knowledge of database tuning and administration (e.g. Oracle, DB2, Oracle AWR/STASPACK)
Working knowledge of operating system design / tuning / tools (e.g. Linux, Solaris, OProfile, VTune)
A related technical degree required
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.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$65.38MKey Investors
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2022-10-18Post Ipo Equity
2004-06-23IPO
2003-01-01Series Unknown· $1M
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Arundhati Bhattacharya
Chairman & Ceo Salesforce India
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