Senior Director, Performance Engineering

What you'll do

• Own the SDB Performance technology line by crafting and delivering the V2MOM for the portfolio.
• Set the direction for performance and scalability across the database engine, storage service, and query processing.
• Own architectural decisions for the performance organization and maintain consistent design processes with partner clouds.
• Manage performance qualification for SalesforceDB releases, including capacity management and query optimization.
• Lead benchmarking and modeling to guide hardware selection, capacity planning, and production telemetry.
• Coordinate performance-related production incident responses and resolve cross-cloud performance issues.
• Manage a collection of engineering teams and develop talent from Manager through Director levels.
• Act as a primary partner for senior leaders regarding performance, capacity, and release risks.

What we're looking for

• BS or higher degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Subject-matter expertise in the performance of large-scale databases, storage, or distributed systems.
• Proven record of owning a technology portfolio and delivering successful services across multiple releases on a year-plus horizon.
• 10+ years of engineering management experience, including 5+ years managing other managers.
• 15+ years of experience in performance or software engineering on databases, storage, or distributed systems.
• 5+ years of experience leading performance, scalability, or release-qualification teams.
• Performance engineering background in systems software with strong CS fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and memory management.
• Hands-on experience with load, benchmark, and regression testing for multi-tenant workloads at scale.