# Senior Director, SDB Performance Technology Line

**Company**: Salesforce
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $218,400 - $365,200 annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Director to own the SDB Performance technology line, focusing on strategy, organization, and results that drive Salesforce DataBase.

The ideal candidate will have a performance engineering background on systems software, ideally databases, storage, or distributed systems, with strong CS fundamentals and technical depth to engage on designs and code in Java or C/C++.

Key responsibilities include:

- Owning the SDB Performance technology line and crafting the V2MOM for that portfolio

- Setting direction for performance and scalability across the database engine, storage service, and query processing

- Being accountable for architecture and holding a consistent architecture and design process with partner clouds

- Leading benchmarking and modeling that guide hardware selection and capacity planning for the fleet

- Holding the organization to trust standards, including scalability, service health, and performance plans

- Driving a production-first culture of service ownership and personally coordinating performance-related production incident response

- Making hard resourcing decisions and shifting teams as business priorities move

- Staying close to teams and customers who feel database performance and using that insight to change what we build and how we operate

- Leading a collection of teams that make up the performance portfolio and developing talent from Manager through Director

- Building a high-performing, inclusive, geographically distributed organization

The typical base salary range for this position is $218,400 - $365,200 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $263,200 - $401,400 annually.

## Skills

### Required
- Computer Science
- Electrical Engineering
- performance engineering
- database systems
- distributed systems
- Java
- C/C++
- SQL
- data analysis
- benchmarking
- capacity planning

### Nice to have
- MS or PhD in databases or distributed systems
- deep knowledge of database internals
- experience with performance workloads
- Splunk or similar telemetry
- systems programming experience
- statistical analysis
- operating system and network fundamentals

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