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Tableau Software

Director- Software Engineering- Performance Engineering

10-14 Years
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Job Description

Responsibilities:

  • Lead a team of talented engineers who like to ship performant code and tackle hard engineering problems to meet the scale for our largest customers.
  • Establish the necessary processes to achieve the best possible performance in the product
  • Manage complex technical projects and provide roadmap planning.
  • Provide improvements that help our infrastructure to be enterprise-ready, leading projects ranging from seed plans to customer-focused enhancements
  • Coach, mentor and provide real-time, meaningful, sensitive, and constructive feedback to direct reports
  • Grow the team and align project assignments with career development goals and company vision
  • Serve as the scrum master and build efficient and healthy teams
  • Collaborate with Product Management, Operations and other stakeholders to develop a vision and roadmap for the team
  • Drive cross team collaborative work environment with other Salesforce Industries engineering managers that fosters autonomy, inclusivity, innovation, learning, respect and transparency while holding a high bar for delivery
  • Cultivate a team culture of ownership, empowerment, and innovation
  • Hire, develop, and grow the talent in the team
  • Drive scalable and extensible architecture and good product development practices
  • Work closely with Support and key customers on production issues
  • Ensure Customer escalations are handled with priority and stays Green
  • Demonstrate problem solving and technical innovation through rolling-up sleeves and getting hands dirty

Requirements:

  • Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 15+ years in a software engineering leadership position with experience in managing engineering team
  • Experience in the software industry, including time as an individual contributor, with at least 5+ years of experience in optimizing large scale systems and big data pipelines.
  • 8+ years of engineering experience coding in at least one programming language, and experience learning new development languages (e.g., Java, C/C++, etc).
  • Experience with performance and scalability engineering, metrics and tooling, performance R&D
  • Experience with AWS, Kafka, Storm, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, NoSQL. Postgres/MySQL, Redis, Big Data, Data Lakes, and Kubernetes
  • Knowledge on LLM, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), AI applications is a plus
  • Experience with big data and pipeline processing at scale
  • Experience with IAAS scale (AWS, GCP, Azure). Major points for familiarity with multi-tenant architecture.
  • Experience partnering with product engineering teams to build scalable systems
  • Evaluate business goals from a capacity, reliability, performance and scale perspective, translating these into requirements and influence product roadmaps.
  • Experience in recruiting, managing engineering teams
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills across technical and non-technical audiences
  • Critical eye for product design, well-versed in good design principles especially around data applications
  • Ability to adapt and handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
  • Technical expertise in data modeling, distributed systems technologies, and cloud deployment (provisioning, multi-tenancy, frameworks, and tools for system monitoring, logging).
  • Experience with Agile software development methodologies and short release cycles

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About Company

Tableau Software is a leading data visualization and business intelligence company, founded in 2003 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It specializes in helping users see and understand data through interactive, easy-to-use dashboards and visual analytics. Tableau enables users—from data analysts to business executives—to explore, analyze, and share insights without needing advanced programming skills.
In 2019, Tableau was acquired by Salesforce, further expanding its capabilities in AI-powered analytics and enterprise cloud solutions. Tableau is widely used across industries for its powerful yet intuitive drag-and-drop interface and real-time data integration features.

Job ID: 114093053