Senior/Lead Principal Performance Engineer, Salesforce
World's leading CRM provider
Job no longer available
World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.
Role
Who you are
- You are a solid developer and a keen analyst up and down the stack. You enjoy designing experiments, analyzing data and optimizing software. You've felt the thrill of speeding up SQL execution by 10X (or 100X) and like to talk about query plans at lunch!
- BS or higher degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- MS or PhD in databases or distributed systems is a plus
- 3+ years experience in professional software development
- 3+ years experience in performance engineering for large scale software systems
- Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and system design
- Strong coding skills (Java or C/C++)
- Proficiency in SQL database programming
- Experience with SQL tuning, analyzing query plans and traces
- Fluency with Linux commands, interfaces and OS concepts
- Expertise in data analysis and visualization
- High energy and enthusiasm for technical problem solving, learning and growth mindset
- Great communication and collaboration skills
Desirable
- Extensive experience with SQL query optimization, knowledge of DB optimizer internals
- Depth in database architecture and internals
- Experience with Splunk for performance monitoring and analytics
- Java profiling tools, JVM tuning, heap dump analysis
- Working with source control systems (Git preferred)
- Linux shell scripting, Python
- Statistical analysis and experimental design
- Operating system concepts including processes, threads, memory management, networking, file systems, and storage
- Network technologies like DNS, Load Balancing, SSL, TCP/IP, HTTP
- Cloud based platforms and infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Docker and Kubernetes
What the job involves
- We are seeking creative and dynamic performance engineers to deliver the tools, analysis, and optimizations that will drive the Salesforce Core database technology to new levels of performance and scalability with every release
- Our performance engineers work in a highly collaborative environment. We partner closely with database and storage system developers, application performance engineers, infrastructure engineering, and our analytics team to deliver all the pieces that add up to high performance in production at scale
- Develop, run and analyze a comprehensive suite of performance workloads and system benchmarks for release qualifications, research, and development projects
- Support application performance teams with expert query performance analysis
- Investigate production database performance issues
- Work closely with systems and application developers to deliver performance fixes and proactive improvements
- Devise, prototype and evaluate system performance and scalability improvements (algorithmic efficiency, concurrency control, memory management, etc.)
- Profile the database engine (C code) and storage service (Java code)
- Conduct benchmarking, analysis and modeling for hardware selection and capacity management
- Collaborate with multiple teams on telemetry, dashboards, and analysis facilities to manage the performance of our rapidly growing production fleet
- Provide technical training in database performance analysis to the Salesforce engineering community
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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Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
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
SoMa, 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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