Senior Performance Engineer
$149k - $224k • Remote • California - San Francisco
Posted 6d ago
Job Location
California - San Francisco
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Categories
Machine Learning Engineer
About the job
Salesforce is seeking a Senior Performance Engineer to join their Agentforce Operations team. This role is crucial for optimizing the scalability, resilience, and performance of their AI-powered supply chain platform. You will gain a deep understanding of the architecture and implement end-to-end optimizations to enhance scalability and reliability. The position involves tackling complex challenges such as optimizing data models, streamlining asynchronous operations, profiling infrastructure, and developing tools for experimentation and validation. As a subject matter expert, you will operate with autonomy, build alignment across engineering teams, and mentor other engineers, contributing to the company's ambitious scaling goals.
Responsibilities
- Diagnose and prioritize architectural problems in distributed backend systems.
- Design and implement solutions for application performance optimization, infrastructure management, and data model improvements.
- Raise and maintain engineering quality standards through pragmatic practices.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand customer needs and make impactful tradeoffs.
- Mentor engineers on backend architecture and system design.
Requirements
- 5+ years of industry experience as a backend engineer building and operating user-facing applications and infrastructure.
- Mastery of Golang, GraphQL, and Postgres, with demonstrated high-performance optimization experience.
- Experience with a major public cloud provider (AWS preferred).
- Deep expertise in backend engineering areas like data modeling, database performance tuning, state management, API design, concurrency, memory management, fault tolerance, and scaling.
- Proven ownership of foundational system work in complex distributed systems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to lead technical design discussions.
- Demonstrated ownership, accountability, and a track record of high standards and collaboration.