Software Engineering SMTS (Performance/Database)

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job Category Software Engineering Job Details About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. 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!

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. Accommodations If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or