Senior Backend Performance Engineer

Salesforce, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 179,000 - 246,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is advancing Agentforce Operations, an AI-powered platform transforming supply chains. You will join at a pivotal moment to optimize scalability, reliability, and performance across the stack, working with the founding team to push the product to broader adoption.

You will tackle complex data-model, asynchronous patterns, and observability challenges while delivering end-to-end optimizations and driving engineering excellence across teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend experience building and operating user-facing applications and their underlying infrastructure.
• Mastery of Golang, GraphQL, and Postgres, with demonstrated high-performance optimizations.
• Major public cloud provider experience (AWS preferred).
• Deep expertise in 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 driving adoption across a team.
• Excellent writing and speaking skills and ability to lead real-time technical-design discussions.
• Demonstrated ownership and accountability, with a consistent track record of high standards, continuous improvement, and low-ego collaboration

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and prioritize architectural problems across our distributed backend systems, contributing technical perspective to help the team invest in the right foundational work at the right time
• Design and implement solutions to hard system problems including application performance optimization, infrastructure management, and data model improvements.
• Raise and maintain our engineering quality bar through pragmatic standards, guardrails, and team practices that prevent regressions and keep our product healthy and performant.
• Collaborate with peers across customer, product, and engineering to deeply understand customer needs, make pragmatic tradeoffs that maximize impact, and align on engineering reality
• Mentor engineers as a senior peer and force multiplier, sharing expertise across backend architecture and system design while helping shape stronger engineering judgment, more effective collaboration, and a higher-performing team

Skills

Backend engineering

Golang

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

AWS

Data modeling

DB performance

API design

Concurrency

System scaling

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

M.S. preferred

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. is advancing Agentforce Operations, an AI-powered platform transforming supply chains. You will join at a pivotal moment to optimize scalability, reliability, and performance across the stack, working with the founding team to push the product to broader adoption.

You will tackle complex data-model, asynchronous patterns, and observability challenges while delivering end-to-end optimizations and driving engineering excellence across teams.