Senior/Lead Database Performance Engineer

Salesforce is seeking a Senior/Lead Database Performance Engineer to join their Core Database Performance team. This role is crucial in ensuring high performance and throughput of their database services while managing exponential growth. The team focuses on innovative troubleshooting techniques and interactive analytics to enable tuning at scale and enhance proactive monitoring.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for maintaining and optimizing Salesforce's multitenant database architecture, working closely with both Development and Operations teams. This position requires extensive experience in Oracle Performance Tuning and database optimization, with a focus on scalability and performance improvement.

The role offers competitive compensation based on location, with ranges from $138,000 to $265,200, depending on experience and location. This is an excellent opportunity for experienced database engineers who want to work at scale with one of the world's leading enterprise software companies.

Key responsibilities include monitoring production workload performance, optimizing queries, and ensuring database scalability. The position requires strong collaboration skills and deep technical expertise in database technologies, particularly Oracle and SQL.

This role requires U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain security clearances, as it supports government customers. The position offers comprehensive benefits and the opportunity to work on challenging problems at massive scale.