Performance Engineer (Senior or Lead)

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Performance Engineer to join their engineering team in San Francisco. This role is crucial in ensuring the performance and scalability of systems that process over 5+ billion transactions daily. The ideal candidate will be responsible for creating and evaluating performance experiments, developing automation frameworks, and optimizing systems end-to-end.

The position requires a minimum of 5 years of performance engineering experience and strong expertise in Java programming. You'll work on sophisticated cluster architecture and data storage issues that impact features within artificial intelligence, IoT, Platform, APIs, and mobile UI experiences. The role demands deep technical knowledge in system architectures, databases, and middleware components.

As a performance specialist for your scrum team, you'll be responsible for identifying and resolving performance-related issues in production. You'll need to demonstrate strong analytical skills, including the ability to discuss time/space complexity using O(n) notation and contribute to project design phases for performance and scalability considerations.

The role offers competitive compensation ranging from $172,000 to $276,100 and comes with comprehensive benefits including wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, and fertility benefits. You'll be working at Salesforce's San Francisco office, contributing to the company's mission as the "customer company" and ensuring confidence with customers ranging from Fortune 100 companies to startups and nonprofit organizations.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone passionate about software performance, automation, and working with exceptional engineers. You'll have the chance to influence the future expansion of next-generation cloud solutions for speed, scale, and high availability. The role combines technical expertise with practical problem-solving, making it ideal for developers passionate about performance or performance testers interested in contributing to performance improvements.