Senior Performance Engineer - Scalable Backend Systems

Salesforce, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a senior backend engineer to join Agentforce Operations. You will own performance optimization, scalability, and reliability across the stack, collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver high-impact improvements.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years of backend experience, mastery of Go, GraphQL, and Postgres, plus strong AWS and cloud-native practices. You’ll mentor peers and contribute to a high-velocity, quality-driven environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience as a backend engineer.
• Mastery of Golang, GraphQL, and Postgres, with demonstrated optimization experience.
• Major public cloud provider experience (AWS preferred).
• Deep expertise in multiple backend engineering areas such as data modeling, DB performance tuning, state management, API design, and scaling.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and prioritize architectural problems across distributed backend systems.
• Design and implement solutions for performance, infrastructure, and data model improvements.
• Raise and maintain engineering quality with guardrails and practices to prevent regressions.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and customer teams to understand needs and align on engineering reality.
• Mentor engineers as a senior peer and force multiplier to raise the bar on system quality.

Skills

GoLang

GraphQL

Postgres

AWS

Data modeling

DB performance tuning

State management

API design

Concurrency

Memory management

Fault tolerance

Scaling

Technical leadership

Technical writing

Ownership

Education

B.S. in Computer Science (M.S. preferred)

Tools

AWS (RDS, Elasticache, S3, EKS)

Jenkins

Spinnaker

Temporal

Istio

Typesense

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a senior backend engineer to join Agentforce Operations. You will own performance optimization, scalability, and reliability across the stack, collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver high-impact improvements.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years of backend experience, mastery of Go, GraphQL, and Postgres, plus strong AWS and cloud-native practices. You’ll mentor peers and contribute to a high-velocity, quality-driven environment.