Description
Be a part of the high powered engineering team that is trusted with the performance and scalability of the world's most advanced and smartest enterprise cloud architecture. Salesforce has moved into the era of billions of transactions per day, and pushing the limits of our performance and scalability has never been more important. The Salesforce Sales Cloud engineering team is seeking an outstanding engineer to drive our performance and scalability initiatives with a keen interest in innovating with AI capabilities. This work is critical to ensure Salesforce can sustain the tremendous growth we have seen in our transactions and data volumes along with Agentforce AI capabilities. Are you an application and/or database expert, passionate about exploring AI capabilities for optimizing our applications and database technology to support this staggering growth and innovation? Join the teams that have delivered game changing technology to support the performance and scalability of Sales Cloud products and applications. You will need deep experience with application/database internals, proficiency in solving real-world data management challenges in high scale systems, and proven ability to design, develop, and optimize the critical data processing systems.
Required Skills & Experience
7+ years of development experience, with at least 5+ years of experience in optimizing large scale applications and databases.
Strong knowledge of structured and unstructured database fundamentals, design, architecture, performance and scalability
A mastery of a programming languages (e.g. Java, C++) and strong Object-Oriented programming skills with focus on optimizations, design patterns and best practices for performance and scalability.
Strong knowledge and experience with optimizing queries on Oracle or similar relational databases
Familiar with AI/LLM Models and GPU’s
Familiar with generative-AI technologies and agentic frameworks
Development experience with PL/SQL, SQL, Oracle, or other database technologies
Strong understanding of schema design and SQL development
Strong experience with IAAS (AWS or GCP). Major points for familiarity with multi-tenant architecture.
A proven track record of optimization and design improvements for performance and scalability.
Hands-on experience with JavaScript ,CSS, JS frameworks and Browser Internals
Experience performance profiling and optimizing JavaScript & CSS and also detecting and fixing JavaScript memory leaks.
Expertise with Selenium webdriver for UI automation
Outstanding attention to detail and strong communication skills
Extra credit if you have in-depth and clear understanding of performance engineering concepts, methodologies, tools, metrics and analysis.
A related technical degree required.
Desired Skills & Experience
Experience and knowledge of structured and unstructured databases.
Java feature development experience
Experience developing frameworks and tools for performance measurement and analysis. You will need this ability to validate your optimizations.
Comprehensive knowledge of the linux operating system, especially process and system monitoring facilities
Experience building SaaS applications
Experience leading and driving production escalations: monitoring, remediation, patch delivery, root-cause-analysis
Knowledge of statistical analysis and experimental design techniques
Experience with agile and test-driven-development techniques
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.