Senior/Lead Engineer, Performance Engineering

What you'll do

• Drive the design and scalability of the database stack from research through production delivery.
• Profile the database engine and storage service to identify and execute performance optimizations.
• Identify root causes of scalability problems and implement fixes independently or lead owning teams to resolve them.
• Lead benchmarking and modeling to guide hardware selection and capacity planning for the production fleet.
• Build telemetry, dashboards, and analysis to monitor production fleet performance against established targets.
• Own performance qualification for SalesforceDB releases by building and running production workloads and benchmarks.

What we're looking for

• A related technical degree or equivalent experience is required.
• 5+ years of performance engineering experience on systems software, ideally databases, storage, or distributed systems is required.
• Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and memory management are required.
• Strong coding skills in Java or C/C++ are required.
• Practical experience with load, benchmark, and regression testing for multi-tenant workloads at scale is required.
• Experience with telemetry, dashboards, and monitoring against performance targets is required.
• Fluency with Linux, OS internals, and shell/Python scripting is required.
• MS or PhD in databases or distributed systems (preferred).