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Performance Engineering – Job Description
Are you obsessed with pursuing every bit of software performance? Are you striving to better utilize CPU, memory, database, and IO subsystems? Are you enjoying endless learning opportunities while your core skills never get outdated? Are you intrigued by some of the largest enterprise cloud deployments on the planet, and how they really scale?
As a Performance Engineer you’ll be a part of a team responsible for developing the tests, tools, frameworks, and platforms necessary for ensuring that Salesforce remains the world’s most highly performing, scalable, and reliable enterprise cloud computing company.
Responsibilities
We are seeking a Senior/Lead Performance Engineer (grade level is flexible based on experience and skills) to work on measuring, analyzing, and improving the performance and scalability of the Salesforce Platform with every release. Performance Engineers at Salesforce:
Focus on developing sophisticated tests that perform complex load simulations and comprehensive end-to-end automation, leveraging custom built and open-source automation frameworks and software tools
Help ensure that we use the most innovative methodologies, deep architectural expertise, cutting-edge automation, and advanced tools in the industry to maintain our leadership position.
Possess a good understanding of large-scale system architectures, ability to identify performance problem areas, and ability to develop succinct test plans across multiple hardware and software tiers with little more than verbal conversation
Know how to measure and demonstrate performance gains in a scientific way, by building/running workloads or simulations, and are confident in discussing time/space complexity using O(n) notation
Are the performance expert for their scrum team, and own their team’s performance related problems in production
Work closely with management, product owners, developers, and quality engineers to understand product requirements and design appropriate performance test plans to verify features performance and scalability requirements
Provide accurate scoping, clear strategies, and milestones for performance tests
Communicate status, risks to test-complete dates, and mitigation strategies to ensure on-time delivery of all committed projects to cross functional teams
Participate in discussions and planning with development teams
Design and implement scalability, stability, stress, reliability, availability, and longevity tests using industry standard tools and custom-developed software written in Java
Review automation implementations and encourage sound design principles
Review test plans, results analysis, capacity planning guides for in-flight releases
Work closely with the Production Success Performance Team to provide product and automation expertise for use in patches, research projects, sizing, and capacity planning
Coordinate technical presentations and training for capacity planning guides
Report weekly trends highlighting product performance and team status against committed milestones and projects
Required Skills
Excellent communications and interpersonal skills
5+ years of software development experience (Java preferred)
Demonstrable experience or understanding and passion for performance engineering
Strong programming, debugging, and profiling skills (Java)
Hands-on experience with performance measurement, analysis, and optimization
Experience conducting benchmark and/or work-load testing using automation tools and frameworks for performance measurement and analysis (Jmeter)
Experience performing simulation or lab experimentation to analyze application/system performance
Distributed systems debugging
Ability to work cross-functionally to articulate, measure, and solve performance issues
Passion for continuous improvement in building a knowledge base technically and professionally
Desired Skills
Experience with SaaS at scale
Knowledge of database fundamentals: SQL, schema, internals (Oracle preferred, TKProf, AWR, ASH)
JVM and garbage collector tuning, heap dump analysis experience
Experience with the following performance tools: JMeter, YourKit
Agile/ Scrum methodology experience
Experience with big data technologies such as Hbase, HDFS, Hadoop, Pig, Hive, and/or Kafka
Knowledge of back-end systems and APIs, developer tools and compilers
Knowledge of statistical analysis and experimental design techniques
Working knowledge of Linux operating system and shell scripting
Experience analyzing and interpreting large volumes of production data using Splunk to understand throughput, latency, memory, and CPU utilization
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