Salesforce
Senior Performance Engineer
$148K–$246K
California - San Francisco +4 · Office Tech-Flexible · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Location
- California - San Francisco
Massachusetts - Boston
New York - New York
Washington - Seattle
Washington - Bellevue - Experience
- 5+ years of industry experience as a backend engineer building and operating user-facing applications and their underlying infrastructure.
- Education
- B.S. in Computer Science preferred; M.S. preferred.
About the job
Optimizes Agentforce Operations’ distributed backend and infrastructure to improve application performance, scalability, and reliability.
What you'll do
- Diagnose architectural issues and implement performance, infrastructure, and data-model improvements.
- Establish engineering standards and practices that prevent regressions and maintain system quality.
- Collaborate across teams and mentor engineers on backend architecture and system design.
What they ask for
- Mastery of Golang, GraphQL, and Postgres, with demonstrated high-performance optimization experience.
- Experience with a major public cloud provider; AWS preferred.
- Deep expertise in multiple backend areas and experience owning foundational work in complex distributed systems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including leading technical-design discussions.
Nice to have
- Experience with AWS RDS, Elasticache, S3, and EKS; exposure to Temporal, Istio, or Typesense; or CI/CD systems such as Jenkins and Spinnaker.
- B.S. in Computer Science (M.S. preferred); supply chain, logistics, manufacturing, Salesforce platform, or workflow-engine experience.
Pay
$148,500 - $223,900 annually (base salary); $178,900 - $246,000 annually (base salary)
Tools
Golang, GraphQL, Postgres, AWS, RDS, Elasticache, S3, EKS
AI focus
The role builds and optimizes an AI-powered platform for automating and orchestrating supply-chain processes. The posting also states that Salesforce uses AI tools to help recruiters assess candidates; humans make hiring decisions.
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