Principal Member of Technical Staff, Salesforce

Commerce Performance Engineering

$211.5-344.6k

Salary dependent on location

SQL

Kubernetes

Python

Java

Kafka

Bash

Ruby

Salesforce

Gatling

Expert level

Boston

San Francisco Bay Area

World's leading CRM provider

Be an early applicant

World's leading CRM provider

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsLead generationAnalyticsCloud ComputingSales

Be an early applicant

$211.5-344.6k

Salary dependent on location

SQL

Kubernetes

Python

Java

Kafka

Bash

Ruby

Salesforce

Gatling

Expert level

Boston

San Francisco Bay Area

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsLead generationAnalyticsCloud ComputingSales

Company mission

To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

10+ years of experience in performance engineering, backend development, or systems optimization
Deep expertise in Java/J2EE, microservices architecture, distributed systems, and cloud-native platforms
Strong understanding of data persistence layers, including SQL tuning, indexing strategies, and query optimization
Demonstrated success using load generation and profiling tools (e.g., JMeter, Gatling, YourKit, Java Flight Recorder, etc.)
Skilled in identifying CPU/memory contention, latency issues, and code-level inefficiencies through deep diagnostics and tooling
Proficiency with at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Ruby, Bash) and comfort building automation tools or CI integrations
Ability to interpret performance test data scientifically and articulate findings clearly to engineering and leadership audiences
Comfortable with O(n) complexity analysis, concurrency design, and debugging in production-like environments
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field (or equivalent experience)

Desirable

Prior experience in order management, eCommerce platforms, or inventory systems
Familiarity with Salesforce Commerce Cloud or similar cloud-based commerce platforms
Experience with APM tools like New Relic, AppDynamics, or custom observability frameworks
Exposure to Kubernetes, Kafka, and container-based infrastructure
Experience working in short release cycles and Agile environments

What the job involves

Serve as the performance lead for the Order Management product, advising on best practices and reviewing architecture and implementation for performance risks
Collaborate with engineering teams to design and implement meaningful performance tests, metrics, and dashboards that reflect real customer use cases
Develop automated performance benchmarks and release-over-release differential reports to help teams track regressions and optimizations
Partner with developers to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, contributing fixes and guidance as needed
Drive creation of critical bug reports when regressions are identified, and support follow-through to resolution
Lead technical deep dives across backend services, data layers, and APIs to analyze latency, throughput, and system efficiency
Contribute to performance tooling, automation frameworks, and continuous performance integration pipelines
Champion a performance-first mindset across teams by embedding performance considerations into design and development processes

Our take

Salesforce is a global cloud computing company, best known for its on-demand, comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The company was launched to mitigate the doubts that business owners felt regarding third party companies holding their data.

By providing essential, customer-oriented CRM software, Salesforce places itself at the heart of digitised businesses. Furthermore, by building out its AI capabilities, the company removes the complexity of AI, enabling any business to deliver smarter, personalised and more predictive customer experiences.

Due to the continued innovation offered by the company, over 150,000 companies, both big and small, are growing their business with Salesforce today. Despite a tumultuous 2023 filled with activist investors, a boardroom shake-up and the unprecedented step-down of Co-CEO Bret Taylor, Salesforce continues to close several acquisition deals and managed to drive up its stock value by 96% from the end of 2022 to 2023.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

-8% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.1)

Trustpilot (1.5)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Jun 2001

$46.9m

SERIES D

Nov 1999

$13.2m

SERIES C

Total funding: $64.5m

Company benefits

With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Marc Benioff

(Chair & CEO)

Previously Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation for 13 years.

Parker Harris

(CTO)

Previously worked as a Software Engineer for over six years. Harris also co-founded Left Coast Software.

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