Software Engineering SMTS (Performance/Database)

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Software Engineering
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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
Strong 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
Desired Skills & Experience
Experience with SQL query optimization, knowledge of DB optimizer internals
Depth in database architecture and internals
Experience with Splunk for performance monitoring and analytics
Java profiling tools, JVM tuning, heap dump analysis
Working with source control systems (Git preferred)
Linux shell scripting, Python
Statistical analysis and experimental design
Operating system concepts including processes, threads, memory management, networking, file systems, and storage
Network technologies like DNS, Load Balancing, SSL, TCP/IP, HTTP
Cloud based platforms and infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Docker and Kubernetes
Unleash Your Potential
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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