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Software Engineering
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Jan 31, 2026

Description

Salesforce is looking for a Senior/Lead Database Performance Engineer to join the Core Database Performance team.

Your Team

The Core Database Performance team is responsible for Fueling customers' success by delivering high performance, high throughput database service and push the boundaries of scale while managing exponential growth in traffic and complexity. This team strives for innovating and automating troubleshooting techniques and interactive analytics, to enable tuning at scale, enhance proactive monitoring to prevent incidents, reduce cost to serve, feed improvements and enhancements back to build a more efficient, resilient and scalable platform.

What you’ll be doing…

  • You will be responsible for the performance and scale of Salesforce multi-tenant database

  • Monitor and respond to trends in Production workload performance before they become a problem

  • Partner with our Development teams to design and tune Salesforce products for Optimal Performance and Scalability

  • Collaborate with our Operations Staff to triage and resolve Production performance issues

  • Monitor Database Performance and usage, optimizing both queries and the code that generates them

Who you are

  • B.S. degree or higher

  • Preferred: a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized)

  • 7+ years of solid hands on experience in Oracle Performance Tuning,

  • Excel in collaboration and working as a team

  • Development and Maintenance of SQL, PL/SQL

  • Excellent working knowledge of SQL Trace, TKPROF, Statspack, and AWR reports

  • Experience troubleshooting locking issues, wait events, hang analysis and developing solutions to fix them

  • Experience with PostgreSQL Performance Tuning is a plus

  • Experience in identifying bottlenecks for Scalability and Performance

For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.