Senior Database Infrastructure Engineer, Salesforce

Slack

Salary not provided

PHP

AWS

Python

Java

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Linux

Postgres

Ruby

Cassandra

Terraform

Ansible

MySQL

Puppet

Chef

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Ireland, UK

World's leading CRM provider

Open for applications

World's leading CRM provider

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsLead generationAnalyticsCloud ComputingSales

Open for applications

Salary not provided

PHP

AWS

Python

Java

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Linux

Postgres

Ruby

Cassandra

Terraform

Ansible

MySQL

Puppet

Chef

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Ireland, UK

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsLead generationAnalyticsCloud ComputingSales

Company mission

To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Have been working in data storage, core infrastructure, or distributed system-owning teams with increasing responsibilities for 5+ years
Have professional experience using Go, PHP/Hacklang, Python, Ruby, or Java
Write code that can be easily understood by others with an eye towards clarity and maintainability. Collaborate with other teams to integrate new features of your platform or adopt self-service features
Operated at least one distributed system, at scale and in a team environment. Some examples include: a relational database like MySQL/Postgres, or systems like Kafka, Cassandra, or ElasticSearch
Deployed server software on Linux, and then operated it at scale. You’ve debugged its problems, and analyzed and optimized its performance
Have experience operating cloud infrastructure, especially AWS
Are familiar with deployment automation/configuration management tools like Chef, Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet
Are a very strong communicator. You’re excited to explain complex technical concepts and share your knowledge with different audiences

What the job involves

We operate at tremendous scale with systems that process millions of events per second. Teams in our group maintain and build the lower levels of our stack, including: Edge services, Data Stores and Caches, Real-time messaging, Asynchronous background job processing
We know we’ve done our job correctly when none of our users think about us. We don’t typically ship new user-facing features, but rather ensure our systems are incredibly performant, highly available, reliable, and scalable. In other words, Slack just works seamlessly
Slack's API and web backend is built on PHP/Hack, our backend services are written in Java and Go, and we use Vitess as our storage engine. Our architecture is constantly evolving to handle millions more users. You can read about how we scaled our datastores with Vitess, how we respond to incidents, and much more on our blog
Operate and enhance our large, highly-available database infrastructure, utilizing technologies such as MySQL and Vitess
Develop tools to enable self-service and self-managing capabilities of our database infrastructure so that other teams can operate full-stack while rapidly building new features for our customers
Collaborate with engineering teams on their database storage needs, and advise them throughout the development lifecycle
Write code to capture database performance, and create tools and dashboards to provide actionable insight into that data
Participate in our on-call rotation and collaborate with our operations team to triage and resolve production issues

Our take

Salesforce is a global cloud computing company, best known for its on-demand, comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The company was launched to mitigate the doubts that business owners felt regarding third party companies holding their data.

By providing essential, customer-oriented CRM software, Salesforce places itself at the heart of digitised businesses. Furthermore, by building out its AI capabilities, the company removes the complexity of AI, enabling any business to deliver smarter, personalised and more predictive customer experiences.

Due to the continued innovation offered by the company, over 150,000 companies, both big and small, are growing their business with Salesforce today. Despite a tumultuous 2023 filled with activist investors, a boardroom shake-up and the unprecedented step-down of Co-CEO Bret Taylor, Salesforce continues to close several acquisition deals and managed to drive up its stock value by 96% from the end of 2022 to 2023.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

-8% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.1)

Trustpilot (1.5)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Jun 2001

$46.9m

SERIES D

Nov 1999

$13.2m

SERIES C

Total funding: $64.5m

Company benefits

Medical Care 🇬🇧
Life Insurance 🇬🇧
Retirement Savings 🇬🇧
Employee Assistance Programs 🇬🇧

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Marc Benioff

(Chair & CEO)

Previously Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation for 13 years.

Parker Harris

(CTO)

Previously worked as a Software Engineer for over six years. Harris also co-founded Left Coast Software.

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