Performance/Principal Architect Engineer

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Software Engineering

Job Details

About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the most significant platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good– you’ve come to the right place.

Salesforce Industries and Revenue Excellence Cloud offers fully integrated quote-to-cash capabilities and end-to-end subscription lifecycle management delivered natively on the Salesforce platform. CPQ and billing capabilities are the #1 ask by customer CROs and CIOs who want more control and efficiency in their revenue operations as they transform their businesses with subscription and usage-based offerings. We have a hardworking team with unmatched cloud computing and demonstrated ability and a culture of ownership, delivery, and innovation.

Salesforce Industries and Revenue Excellence Cloud are looking for a seasoned software engineer to tackle the role of performance engineering architect. As a Performance engineering Architect, you are important in driving performance and scalability efforts by influencing the design and architecture of Industries and Revenue Excellence Cloud’s next-generation revenue operations product.

If you like solving complicated and large-scale challenges for a distributed multi-tenant architecture on the cloud, we would love to hear from you. 

Job Responsibilities

- Hands-on architect who will lead by example
- Articulate and vet technical project scope, size, impact, risks, and feasibility.
- Model traffic patterns for Revenue cloud features in terms of customer expectations by collaborating with product owners and development leads
- Propose highly scalable design and architecture for features

- Proactively identify scale bottlenecks and propose solutions with proof of concepts
- Be a multiplier by leading a team of performance engineers to improve the scalability of the features delivered
- Influence engineering leaders across the company to ensure all features we provide meet our long-term scale expectations
- Deliver innovative solutions to improve performance assessment lifecycle in both production and lab

- Measure and demonstrate performance gains scientifically with proof of concepts
- Evangelize performance best practices through technical presentations at key forums for influencing broader salesforce products.
- Author portfolio and program-level documents for Performance and scale that influence broader salesforce organization.
- Drive long-term optimization strategies with impact across multiple projects.
- Work across disciplines, brainstorm big ideas, build new methodologies, lead multiple initiatives, drive a concept into a prototype, and ultimately guide the transition into a high-volume consumer product. 
- Engage and work towards innovations with your peers and broader team
- Assess the feasibility of technical feature proposals and ensure that projects are cohesive with well-founded, long-term visions
- Use engagement opportunities to drive improvements in the internal performance engineering process
- Demonstrate a consistent track record of working with Engineering leaders to complete projects that are impactful to our internal and external customers and responsible for fulfilling senior leadership yearly objectives.

Required Skills

- 15+ years of relevant industry experience with emphasis on performance and scale
- Focus your efforts on vetting the solutions instead of prescribing them
- Proven development skills in large-scale distributed architecture
- Strong programming skills in Java, JavaScript, or other OO language
- Experience in working with highly available products (24/7)
- Experience in performance benchmarks, developing models, proof of concepts for optimizations
- Root cause analysis of perfor