The Salesforce Database team is building the future of trusted enterprise computing in the cloud. We're a fast-paced highly collaborative team and work across all areas of our distributed transactional database technology stack. We are seeking creative and dynamic performance engineers to deliver the tools, analysis, and optimizations that will drive the Salesforce database (SDB) technology to new levels of performance and scalability with every release.
Our performance engineers partner closely with database and storage system developers, application performance engineers, infrastructure engineers, and our analytics team to deliver all the pieces that add up to high performance in production at scale. Sounds exciting? It is
Job Responsibilities
Develop, run and analyze a comprehensive suite of performance workloads and system benchmarks for release qualifications, research, and development projects
Investigate production performance issues
Work closely with systems and application developers to deliver performance fixes and proactive improvements.
Devise,
prototype and evaluate system performance and scalability improvements (algorithmic efficiency, concurrency control, memory management, etc.)
Profile the database engine (C code) and storage service (Java code)
Conduct benchmarking, analysis and modeling for hardware selection and capacity management
Collaborate with multiple teams on telemetry, dashboards, and analysis facilities to manage the performance of our rapidly growing production fleet
Requirements
Robust CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and system design
Strong coding skills (Java or C/C++)
Proficiency in SQL database programming
Fluency with Linux commands, interfaces and OS concepts
Expertise in data analysis and visualization
High energy and enthusiasm for technical problem solving, learning and growth mindset
Great communication and collaboration skills