Senior/Lead Database and Application Performance Engineer

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Salesforce is looking for a Senior/Lead Database and Applicatiom Performance Engineer to join the Core Database Performance team.

*** This is not a DBA role as it does not provide database access. All tuning and optimization happens at the application/SQL layer. ***

Your Team

The Core Database Performance team is responsible for  Fueling customers' success by delivering high performance, high throughput database service and push the boundaries of scale while managing exponential growth in traffic and complexity. This team strives for  innovating and automating troubleshooting techniques and interactive analytics, to enable tuning at scale, enhance proactive monitoring to prevent incidents,reduce cost to serve, feed improvements and enhancements back to build a more efficient, resilient and scalable platform.

What you’ll be doing…

• You will be responsible for the performance and scale of Salesforce multitenant database 

• Monitor and respond to trends in Production workload performance before they become a problem

• Partner with our Development teams to design and tune Salesforce products for Optimal Performance and Scalability

• Collaborate with our Operations Staff to triage and resolve Production performance issues

• Monitor Database Performance and usage, optimizing both queries and the code that generates them 

 

Who you are 

• 7+ years of solid hands on experience in SQL Performance Tuning,

• Excel in collaboration and working as a team

• Development and Maintenance of SQL, PL/SQL

• Excellent working knowledge of SQL Trace, TKPROF, Statspack, and AWR reports

• Experience troubleshooting locking issues, wait events, hang analysis and developing solutions to fix them

• Experience in identifying bottlenecks for Scalability and Performance 

• Experience with Database Cluster/Multi-tenant/cloud Architecture (RAC, Grid Infrastructure).

• Experience with PostgreSQL Performance Tuning is a plus

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Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $172,000 to $276,100.

Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.