Senior Performance Engineer
InformaticaBase Salary
$149k - $246k/yr
Responsibilities
- Diagnose and prioritize architectural problems across distributed backend systems.
- Design and implement application performance, infrastructure, and data-model optimizations.
- Improve scalability, resilience, reliability, and performance across the product and platform.
- Optimize asynchronous operations, profile and rightsize infrastructure, and develop observability and experimentation tools.
- Establish engineering standards, guardrails, and practices that prevent performance regressions.
- Collaborate with customer, product, and engineering teams to understand needs and make pragmatic technical tradeoffs.
- Mentor engineers and share expertise in backend architecture, system design, and engineering judgment.
Requirements
- 5+ years of industry experience as a backend engineer building and operating user-facing applications and underlying infrastructure.
- Mastery of Golang, GraphQL, and Postgres with experience delivering high-performance optimizations.
- Experience with a major public cloud provider, preferably AWS.
- Deep expertise in multiple backend areas including data modeling, database performance tuning, state management, API design, transactionality, concurrency, memory management, fault tolerance, and scaling.
- Repeated ownership of foundational work in complex distributed systems, from diagnosing problems through solution design and team adoption.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including leading real-time technical design discussions.
- Demonstrated ownership, accountability, high standards, continuous improvement, and low-ego collaboration.
- Preferred: B.S. in Computer Science; M.S. preferred.
- Preferred: Experience with AWS RDS, ElastiCache, S3, and EKS; exposure to Temporal, Istio, or Typesense; and experience with Jenkins and Spinnaker.
- Preferred: Exposure to supply chain, logistics, or manufacturing; familiarity with the Salesforce platform; and experience with workflow engines.
Benefits
- Salesforce offers 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 role is part of a startup-style Agentforce Operations team backed by Salesforce and offers autonomy, advancement opportunities, and technical mentorship.
- The stated annual base salary range is $148,500-$223,900, or $178,900-$246,000 in select San Francisco and New York City metropolitan areas; bonus, equity, and benefits are excluded from these ranges.
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About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com