COMPLETE Performance Engineer -SMTS — Digital Delivery

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Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

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Job Location
Hyderabad, India

Department Description:
The Salesforce Digital Delivery team is responsible for the innovation of the Salesforce digital experience globally, leveraging best-in-class technology and systems—including Salesforce’s platform. Salesforce continues to grow rapidly, and our digital experience ensures that visitors, prospects, customers, and trailblazers can connect with Salesforce content and capability in a seamless and engaging manner.
Ready to bring your engineering expertise from complex enterprise environments to Salesforce? Do you place a high value on being part of a company that emphasizes equality, diversity, innovation, and doing the right thing for ourselves, our community, and our customers? The Digital Delivery team is looking for an enthusiastic, experienced [DevOps] Member of Technical Staff to help build the experience that drives our corporate web presence, which is the first touchpoint our worldwide community of users has with Salesforce.

Your Impact:

• Master our development process, culture, and codebase, then improve it.

• Build tools, services and establish processes both within and around the core of our technology stack, with a view toward improving scalability, performance, reuse, and adoption among web developers

• Create and take ownership of the performance framework by delivering automated enhancements and championing best practices across the group.

• Seek out and understand new technologies which can play a key role in the near future direction of our system, designed using modern technologies and approaches to provide a orchestration and relevant tooling to allow fast development and deployment.

• Developing self-service tools to enhance application performance and developer productivity.

• Developing the POCs to demonstrate the viability of new ideas and technologies to support the innovation

Required Skills/Experience

• 5+ years of experience in software development with demonstrable understanding of the full Software Delivery Lifecycle and strong performance engineering and automation mindset

• Extensive experience with performance testing tools like Apache JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, Artillery, Puppeteer, Cucumber or others, including scripting and execution of performance tests.

• Proficiency in automating comprehensive performance testing for individual products/services, as well as conducting integrated systems performance tests.

• Hands-on experience as a performance test specialist to plan, execute and automate tests.

• Strong programming / scripting abilities in any one of languages e.g. Ruby, Java, Go, Python, etc for creation of performance test framework and for automating performance tests and tasks.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and optimizing performance for applications hosted in the cloud environment.

• Proficiency in using version control systems like Git for collaborative development and tracking changes in the codebase.

• Familiarity with tools like New Relic, Dynatrace, or AppDynamics for monitoring, profiling, and analyzing application performance.

• Understanding of database systems (SQL, NoSQL) and the ability to optimize database queries and configurations for improved performance.

• Knowledge of web technologies, protocols (HTTP/HTTPS), and web servers (Apache, Nginx) to optimize web application performance.

• Ability to analyze performance test results, identify bottlenecks, and provide recommendations for performance improvements.

• Awareness of security considerations related to performance, including DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks and mitigation techniques.

• Experience working in Agile environments and understanding of DevOps practices for continuous integration, deployment, and performance monitoring.

• Understanding of one of continuous integration/continuous delivery tools - Jenkins/Jenkins Pipelines, Gitlab, CircleCI, Sauce Labs, and Nexus

• Docker image building, maintenance, orchestration and pipelining

• Understanding front-end testing methodologies, and associated frameworks (JUnit, JEST, and Selenium based test automation frameworks a plus)

• Understanding of server infrastructure, networking concepts, load balancers, and CDN (Content Delivery Network) services to optimize performance across distributed systems.

• An organized way of working, with the ability to consider issues in parallel and prioritise them appropriately

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Technology or equivalent experience

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience in Heroku application platform - Heroku Pipeline, Heroku CI and Review Apps etc

• Experience in handling salesforce metadata/environment/sandbox management

• Experience in building a solid CI/CD pipeline for Salesforce code & metadata

• Certified Salesforce.com Administrator (ADM-211 or ADM-301) or equivalent Salesforce experience.

• Understanding of Salesforce.com architecture, Web Services and APIs

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