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.