Performance Engineer

Job Category

Software Engineering

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword — it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

About the Role

As a Performance Engineer at Salesforce Performance Team, you will play a crucial role in building innovative software that enhances engineer productivity and identifies software performance bottlenecks and regressions through cutting-edge simulations and monitoring. You will be challenged with diving deep into large-scale applications spanning diverse technology stacks, including mobile, browsers, systems, and storage. Your impact will be felt in delivering real-time business intelligence, enabling faster data-driven decisions through your expertise in scalability and latency needs. As a member of the performance engineering team, you will be responsible for tackling performance analysis and code optimization challenges across multi-tiers and multi-data centers.

Your Impact

• End-to-End Performance Analysis: Analyzing large scale distributed environments to optimize application performance bottlenecks in our application stack.
• Coding and Developing Skills: Developing and debugging code to identify and fix performance issues.
• UI/Mobile Performance Scalability: Enhancing user experience by measuring and optimizing the user interface across mobile and other devices.
• Evangelizing Performance: Taking ownership and driving performance initiatives throughout the engineering team and across the industry.
• Automation Tools for Performance: Designing and building efficient processes and automation to repeat tests for every build and detect regressions on production pods.

Minimum Requirements

• A related technical degree required
• 8-13 years of experience in a performance engineering role, analyzing, solving, and automating performance workloads on large-scale systems.
• 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, Your Kit).
• 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 Frontend testing tools like Selenium, Load Runner.

Preferred Requirements

• Strong knowledge of Salesforce product and platform features, capabilities, and best use of it
• Able to articulate the importance and value of Governance to Business and IT executives
• A good understanding of enterprise architecture principles is strongly preferred
• Ability to quickly grasp and distinctly explain technological and business concepts
• Serve as a trusted advisor, with a deep curiosity to understand your customers, their motivations and needs, and how to approach ensuring their success
• Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)

Why Join Salesforce

When you join Salesforce, you'll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we'll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what's possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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Application Note

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