Description: Salesforce is seeking a talented Performance Engineer who can evaluate the performance of enterprise applications running on cutting edge cloud computing platforms. Our Performance Engineers discover ways to squeeze every ounce of performance from mobile, social, and enterprise cloud applications. Use and develop your skill in tuning, optimizing, and enhance application performance by improving cashing, querying, multi-threading, multi-tenancy, distributed computing, and shared resource utilization. Continually find better ways in generating complex load simulations, and analyzing applications down to the code level for bottlenecks. Work with world class Developers to create the most innovative products in the industry. You will help deliver critical features and ensure our cloud services remain blazingly fast and bulletproof for our customers worldwide. Responsibilities:

  • Be the performance expert on key projects to evaluate and improve the performance
  • Lead cross-functional and cross-organizational initiatives to improve product performance
  • Drive department wide product creation improvements in response time, capacity, scalability, reliability, resource utilization and data integrity
  • Architect overarching solutions for all performance engineering to follow
  • Conduct technical presentations to educate teams on how to improve performance

  • Analyze metrics and trends to highlight performance opportunities for improvements Required Skills:

  • 9+ years experience in Performance Engineering
  • 9+ years experience with web front-end and back-end performance tuning
  • 9+ years experience in performance tuning enterprise cloud applications
  • 9+ years experience in performance tuning JVMs, databases, and SQL
  • 9+ years experience in web technologies (HTTP, TSL, CSS, Web Services, etc)
  • 9+ years experience with load generation tools (e.g. LoadRunner, JMeter, Grinder)
  • 6+ years experience in performance testing mobile applications
  • 6+ years of programming experience in Java, C++, C#
  • 6+ years experience with script languages JavaScript, Perl, Python, Ruby, Shell
  • 6+ years experience with data mining tools (Splunk, Sumologic, Loggly)

  • Bachelor’s Degree in any software or hardware engineering discipline Desired Skills:

  • Application servers (e.g. Resin, Weblogic, WebSphere, JBoss)
  • J2EE Technologies (e.g. JSP, Servlets, EJB, Web Services, SOA)
  • Java Debugging / Monitoring Software (e.g. JProbe, Dynatrace, Introscope)
  • Oracle SQL / PL SQL query plan analysis/tuning, contention/locking analysis and tuning
  • Oracle clustering technologies (e.g. RAC, Grid, OPS)
  • Network packet sniffers (e.g. TcpDump, Network Monitor, WinDump)
  • TCP/IP, networking topology, routers, switches About Salesforce:Salesforce, the Customer Success Platform and world’s #1 CRM, empowers companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way. We are the fastest growing of the top 10 enterprise software companies, the World’s Most Innovative Company according to Forbes, and one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For six years running. The growth, innovation, and Aloha spirit of Salesforce are driven by our incredible employees who thrive on delivering success for our customers while also finding time to give back through our 1/1/1 model, which leverages 1% of our time, equity, and product to improve communities around the world. Salesforce is a team sport, and we play to win. Join us!Salesforce.com is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this Web site or directly to managers. Salesforce.com does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Salesforce.com will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Salesforce.com. EEO
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