Performance Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• A related technical degree or equivalent experience.
• At least 5 years of performance engineering experience on systems software, ideally databases, storage, or distributed systems.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and memory management.
• Strong coding skills in Java or C/C++.
• Practical experience with load, benchmark, and regression testing, ideally for multi-tenant workloads at scale.
• A track record of root cause analysis for performance and scalability problems in complex distributed systems.
• Strong SQL and performance data analysis skills, including CPU, latency, throughput, and per-tenant resource use.
• Experience with telemetry, dashboards, and monitoring against performance targets.
• Fluency with Linux, OS internals, and shell or Python scripting.
• Clear communication and collaboration skills across database, storage, infrastructure, application performance, and analytics teams.
• Integrity and a growth mindset, including reporting what the data shows, seeking feedback, and continuing to learn.

Nice To Haves

• An MS or PhD in databases or distributed systems.
• Deep knowledge of database internals, including the optimizer, query execution, storage, transactions, and concurrency control.
• SQL query optimization experience.
• Experience with Splunk or similar log analytics for performance monitoring.
• Experience with Java and C/C++ profiling, JVM tuning, and heap dump analysis.
• Statistical analysis and experimental design experience.

Responsibilities

• Drive the design and scalability of the database stack with development teams, from research and conception through production delivery.
• Profile the database engine and storage service to find optimization opportunities and meet the performance and scale needs of large customers and newly onboarded applications.
• Identify root causes of performance and scalability problems, then fix them or drive fixes with the owning team.
• Lead benchmarking and modeling to guide hardware selection and fleet capacity planning.
• Build telemetry, dashboards, and analysis to measure production fleet performance against targets.
• Own performance qualification for SalesforceDB releases, including building and running workloads and benchmarks used to decide whether releases go to production.

Benefits

• Time off programs
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Mental health support
• Paid parental leave
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• 401(k)
• Employee stock purchasing program