Senior Performance Engineer
Salesforce7 days ago
Base Salary
$149k - $246k/yr
Responsibilities
- Diagnose and prioritize architectural problems across distributed backend systems.
- Design and implement application performance, infrastructure, and data model improvements.
- Develop tools and observability to run experiments and empirically validate performance results.
- 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 on backend architecture, system design, engineering judgment, and collaboration.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of industry experience as a backend engineer building and operating user-facing applications and their 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 engineering areas including data modeling, database performance tuning, state management, API design, transactionality, concurrency, memory management, fault tolerance, and scaling.
- Repeated ownership of foundational system work in complex distributed systems, from diagnosing architectural problems through solution design and team adoption.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to lead real-time technical design discussions.
- Demonstrated ownership, accountability, high standards, continuous improvement, and low-ego collaboration.
- Preferred: B.S. in Computer Science, with an M.S. preferred.
- Preferred: AWS experience with RDS, ElastiCache, S3, and EKS.
- Preferred: exposure to Temporal, Istio, or Typesense.
- Preferred: experience with Jenkins and Spinnaker.
- Preferred: exposure to supply chain, logistics, or manufacturing industries.
- Preferred: familiarity with the Salesforce platform and workflow engines.
Benefits
- Time off programs, medical, dental, vision, and mental health support.
- Paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- Base salary range of $148,500–$223,900 annually, or $178,900–$246,000 annually in select San Francisco and New York City metropolitan areas; bonus, equity, and other incentives may apply separately.
Tech Stack
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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.