Senior Director, Performance Engineering
Core
Own the strategy, organization, and results for the performance technology line of SalesforceDB, the distributed transactional database powering the Salesforce Platform.
Role type
Senior Director, Performance Engineering (Engineering Management)
Builds
High-performance distributed database engine, storage service, and query processing capabilities for the Salesforce Platform.
Domain
Cloud computing, distributed databases, systems performance engineering
Required skills
Engineering management (managing managers), distributed database performance expertise, architecture ownership, capacity planning, incident response leadership, team building, strategic planning (V2MOM), technical depth in Java/C++
Preferred skills
MS/PhD in databases, deep database internals knowledge, systems programming (C/C++/Java), telemetry analysis (Splunk), statistical analysis, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP)
Technologies
SalesforceDB, Java, C/C++, SQL, Linux, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Splunk
Responsibilities
Craft and deliver the V2MOM for the performance portfolio, set direction for performance/scalability across the database engine and storage, own architectural decisions for the performance organization, lead benchmarking and modeling for hardware selection and capacity planning, coordinate production incident response, manage and develop a geographically distributed organization of managers and engineers, partner with senior leaders on release risk and performance issues
Seniority
Senior Director, hands-on IC with heavy management responsibilities
