Senior Performance Engineer

Agentforce Operations as a Senior Performance Engineer and play a crucial role in optimizing the scalability, resilience, and performance of our product and platform. You will have the opportunity to tackle a wide array of challenges, including optimizing our existing data model, streamlining asynchronous operations, and profiling our infrastructure. As a subject matter expert in application performance, you will operate with autonomy while building alignment across engineering. This role offers ample opportunities for advancement and the chance to make a significant impact on our ambitious scaling goals.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and prioritize architectural problems across distributed backend systems, contributing technical perspective to help the team invest in foundational work.
• Design and implement solutions to hard system problems including application performance optimization, infrastructure management, and data model improvements.
• Collaborate with peers across customer, product, and engineering to deeply understand customer needs, make pragmatic tradeoffs that maximize impact.

Requirements

• 5+ years of industry experience as a backend engineer, building and operating user-facing applications and their underlying infrastructure
• Mastery of Golang, GraphQL, and Postgres, with demonstrated experience delivering high-performance optimizations
• Excellent writing and speaking skills and ability to lead real-time technical-design discussions
• Deep expertise in multiple areas of backend engineering such as data modeling, db performance tuning, state management, API design, transactionality, concurrency, memory management, fault tolerance, and scaling, with the ability to pick up new technologies quickly
• Repeated ownership of foundational system work in complex distributed systems, from diagnosing architectural problems to designing solutions to driving adoption across a team
• Demonstrated ownership and accountability, with a consistent track record of high standards, continuous improvement, and low-ego collaboration
• Exposure to Temporal, Istio, or Typesense
• Experience working in AWS, specifically with RDS, Elasticache, S3, and EKS

Preferred

• Major public cloud provider experience (AWS preferred)
• B.S. in Computer Science (M.S. preferred)
• Experience with CI/CD systems, specifically Jenkins and Spinnaker
• Exposure to the supply chain, logistics, or manufacturing industry. (We will teach you otherwise!)
• Familiarity with the Salesforce platform
• Experience with workflow engines

Pay

USD 148,500 - 246,000