Software Engineering LMTS
Salesforce1 day ago
Base Salary
$149k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive the design and scalability of the distributed database stack from research and conception through production delivery.
- Profile the database engine and storage service to identify optimization opportunities for large-scale customer and application workloads.
- Identify root causes of performance and scalability problems and implement or coordinate fixes with owning teams.
- Lead benchmarking, performance modeling, hardware selection, and fleet capacity planning.
- Build telemetry, dashboards, and analysis to measure production performance against targets.
- Own performance qualification for SalesforceDB releases by building and running workloads and benchmarks that determine production readiness.
Requirements
- A related technical degree or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of performance engineering experience with systems software, ideally databases, storage, or distributed systems.
- Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and memory management.
- Strong coding skills in Java or C/C++.
- Practical experience with load, benchmark, and regression testing for large-scale workloads.
- Experience performing root-cause analysis for performance and scalability issues in complex distributed systems.
- Strong SQL and performance data analysis skills, including CPU, latency, throughput, and per-tenant resource usage.
- Experience with telemetry, dashboards, and monitoring against performance targets.
- Fluency with Linux, operating-system internals, and shell or Python scripting.
- Clear communication and collaboration across database, storage, infrastructure, application performance, and analytics teams.
- Preferred: MS or PhD in databases or distributed systems.
- Preferred: deep knowledge of database internals, SQL query optimization, Splunk or similar log analytics, Java and C/C++ profiling, JVM tuning, heap dump analysis, statistical analysis, and experimental design.
Benefits
- Benefits include time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- The typical base salary range is $148,500-$260,100 annually; in select San Francisco and New York City metropolitan areas, the range is $178,900-$285,800 annually.
- The role may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
About Salesforce
Salesforce builds cloud-based customer relationship management software and a broader Customer 360 platform for sales, service, marketing, commerce, and analytics, sold by subscription to businesses and public-sector organizations. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Francisco, it trades on the NYSE under the symbol CRM. Its portfolio includes Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, MuleSoft integration, Tableau analytics, and Slack for collaboration, with extensive developer tools and APIs.