Senior / Lead Performance Engineer, Salesforce

• If you’re fired up about software performance, automating everything, and working with phenomenal engineers, this is the job for you!
• If you are a developer that is passionate about performance, or a performance tester that is also interested in contributing performance improvements, we would love to hear from you
• This candidate must have the technical prowess to write fast and efficient code, find inefficiencies and influence others to make performance improvements
• In addition, this engineer needs to measure and demonstrate performance gains in a scientific way, by building/running workloads or simulations
• The candidate should be comfortable in discussing time/space complexity using O(n) notation and engage in a project’s design phase for its performance and scalability considerations
• Candidates having minimum of 5 years of performance engineering experience
• Strong knowledge of Java programming language
• Proven experience in system architectures, operating systems, databases, middle tier components such as Java/J2EE, Kafka, and how to optimally utilize such systems to achieve performant and scalable systems
• Ability to dig deep into complex pieces of code to understand system design with an eye for performance and scalability bottlenecks with an aim to optimize code
• Ability to automate operations such as simulation execution, monitoring, analysis, and a deep desire to do it
• Performance Engineering experiences with a distinguished track record on technically demanding projects
• Experience in database performance, such as SQL tuning and optimization
• Understanding mid tier performance (e.g. Java profiling) and related tools
• Proven experience with load generation / measurement software and concepts (e.g. JMeter, or other custom load generation software) for HTTP, REST, RPC and similar cloud systems
• Solid understanding of database tuning and administration (e.g. Oracle)
• Working knowledge of operating system design / tuning / tools (e.g. Linux, OProfile)
• A related technical degree required

Desirable

• Salesforce is seeking a Software Engineer, Performance Engineer across multiple teams within our organization!
• Our mission as the “customer company”, is to ensure confidence with our customers, from Fortune 100 companies, to start-ups and nonprofit organizations
• Processing more than 5+ billion transactions per day and growing, performance remains a center focus for innovation
• Join the first-rate team that influences the future expansion of next-generation cloud solutions for speed, scale, and high availability
• You will have the chance to create performance experiments, collect and evaluate data
• Develop power tools and automation frameworks for continuous integration, performance measurement and evaluation
• Add to the design and velocity of our global products
• Optimize our systems end-to-end by advising infrastructure design, server and application development/ tuning, solving sophisticated cluster architecture and any data storage issues that impact features within artificial intelligence, IoT, Platform, API’s and mobile UI experiences
• You are the performance specialist for your scrum team, and should be responsible for your team’s performance related problems on production

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

Total funding: $64.5m

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.