Lead Performance Engineer, Salesforce

$172.5-285.8k

Salary dependent on location. + ESPP

Python

Java

Kafka

Cassandra

Spark

Storm

Ruby on Rails

Senior and Expert level

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

$172.5-285.8k

Salary dependent on location. + ESPP

Python

Java

Kafka

Cassandra

Spark

Storm

Ruby on Rails

Senior and Expert level

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

Regular use of AI tools for automation and performance work
A good understanding of enterprise architecture principles is strongly preferred
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
Familiarity with NoSQL data stores and transport systems such as Spark, Storm, Cassandra, Kafka is a plus
Hands-on experience in open source load test tools
Expert in profiling, instrumentation, load generation tools, and database optimization
Proven track record in API design, concurrency, and resource efficiency for massive scale
Strong communicator able to present technical findings to both executives and architects
Constantly generates and validates new ideas
Manages technical debt and provides a long-term vision for performance
Excels at Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and complex optimization

What the job involves

The Lead Member of Technical Staff (LMTS) is a high-level technical leader and you are a performance and scale subject matter expert who drives innovation, designs high-scale automation frameworks, and ensures product reliability
You don't just find bottlenecks—you prevent them through architectural influence, database tuning, and expert root cause analysis
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

Application process

End Date: April 27, 2026

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.

Steph

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

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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