UI Software Engineer, Performance (Senior / Lead / Principal)

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Products and Technology

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UI Software Engineer, Performance (All Levels)
Location: California, Colorado, North Carolina, Washington

We are seeking a UI Software Engineer, Performance to join our R&D, Tech & Products team. As the 4th largest software company in the world, and the leader in the cloud, we are challenged with designing and developing the next generation technologies in cloud computing. Our mission as the “customer company”, is to ensure trust with our customers, from Fortune 100 companies, to start-ups and nonprofit organizations. Processing more than 5+ billion transactions per day and growing, performance remains a central focus for innovation.

Trust.salesforce.com is the Salesforce community’s home for real-time information on system performance and security.

View our daily transaction volume here: https://status.salesforce.com/performance

Teams that are currently hiring with a focus on the UI (Lightning, Analytics and Automation Cloud)

Your impact:
Be a part of the first-rate team that influences the future expansion of next-generation cloud solutions for speed, scale, and high availability. You will have the opportunity to design performance experiments, collect and analyze data. Develop power tools and automation frameworks for continuous integration, performance measurement and analysis. Contribute to the design and velocity of our global products. Optimize our systems end-to-end by advising infrastructure design, server and application development/ tuning, solving complex cluster architecture and data storage challenges that impact features within artificial intelligence, IoT, Platform, API’s and mobile UI experiences.

If you’re fired up about software performance, automating everything, and working with great engineers, this is the job for you!  If you are a developer that is passionate about performance, or a performance tester that is also interested in contributing performance improvements, we would love to hear from you.

This candidate must have the technical prowess to write fast and efficient code,  find inefficiencies and influence others to make performance improvements.  You are the performance expert for your scrum team and should own your team’s performance related problems on production.

General Requirements:

- 6+ years of UI Software development experience
- 3+ years in performance engineering
- Deep understanding of Object Oriented Programming
- Hands-on experience in JavaScript, React and NodeJS
- Solid understanding of web technologies, such as HTTP, HTML,CSS, XML, JSON, and/or AJAX
- Experience in using UI profilers and deep understanding of chrome developer tools
- Understanding of how a browser works (i.e. ChromeDevTools, UI Automator)
- Solid understanding of web application performance engineering concepts, tools, methodologies, metrics, and analysis
- Hands-on experience with performance measurement, analysis, and optimization
- Experience conducting benchmark and/or work-load testing using automation tools and frameworks for performance measurement and analysis (Jmeter)
- Experience performing simulation or lab experimentation to analyze application/ system performance
- Distributed systems debugging
- Ability to work cross-functionally to articulate, measure and solve performance issues
- Passion for continuous improvement in building knowledge base technically and professionally
- Bachelor’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline

Preferred Skills:

- SaaS experience at scale
- Knowledge of database fundamentals: SQL, schema, internals (Oracle preferred, TKProf, AWR, ASH)
- JVM and garbage collector tuning, heap dump analysis experience
- Experience with the following performance tools:  JMeter, YourKit
- Agile/ Scrum methodology experience
- Knowledge of back-end systems and API’s, developer tools and compilers
- Knowledge of statistical analysis and experimental design techniques
- Working knowledge of Linux operating system

About Salesforce
Salesforce, the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM, empowers companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way. The company was founded on three disruptive ideas: a new technology model in cloud computing, a pay-as-you-go business model, and a new integrated corporate philanthropy model. These founding principles have taken our company to great heights, including being named one of Forbes’s “World’s Most Innovative Company” six years in a row and one of Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” nine years in a row. We are the fastest growing of the top 10 enterprise software companies, and this level of growth equals incredible opportunities to grow a career at Salesforce. Together, with our whole Ohana (Hawaiian for \'family\') made up of our employees, customers, partners and communities, we are working to improve the state of the world.

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