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Software Engineering LMTS

Salesforce
San Francisco, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 30 Jan 2026
💰 $285,800/yr($148,500/yr$285,800/yr)

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Software Engineering

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About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

Salesforce is looking for a Senior/Lead Database Performance Engineer to join the Core Database Performance team.

Your Team
The Core Database Performance team is responsible for  Fueling customers' success by delivering high performance, high throughput database service and push the boundaries of scale while managing exponential growth in traffic and complexity. This team strives for  innovating and automating troubleshooting techniques and interactive analytics, to enable tuning at scale, enhance proactive monitoring to prevent incidents, reduce cost to serve, feed improvements and enhancements back to build a more efficient, resilient and scalable platform.

What you’ll be doing…

  • You will be responsible for the performance and scale of Salesforce multi-tenant database 

  • Monitor and respond to trends in Production workload performance before they become a problem

  • Partner with our Development teams to design and tune Salesforce products for Optimal Performance and Scalability

  • Collaborate with our Operations Staff to triage and resolve Production performance issues

  • Monitor Database Performance and usage, optimizing both queries and the code that generates them 

 
Who you are 
 

  • B.S. degree or higher

  • Preferred:  a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized)

  • 7+ years of solid hands on experience in Oracle  Performance Tuning,

  • Excel in collaboration and working as a team

  • Development and Maintenance of SQL, PL/SQL

  • Excellent working knowledge of SQL Trace, TKPROF, Statspack, and AWR reports

  • Experience troubleshooting locking issues, wait events, hang analysis and developing solutions to fix them

  • Experience with PostgreSQL Performance Tuning is a plus

  • Experience in identifying bottlenecks for Scalability and Performance

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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