Senior/Lead/Principal Engineer, Salesforce

• You will need familiarity with database internals, system programming, outstanding software engineering skills, and relish the opportunity to work on very sophisticated, highly concurrent, distributed systems
• You must have a consistent record of success where you proven end to end ownership of architecture, design, implementation, testing, and product support
• Experience with one or more cloud technologies: Kubernetes, Puppet, Docker, Spinnaker, Terraform, Jenkins, Git
• PostgreSQL software development experience and community involvement as a contributor is a huge plus
• A related technical degree required
• Deep knowledge of object oriented programming and other scripting languages: Java, C++, C, Scala, Python, Shell
• Experience with Agile development methodology and Testing
• Experience using telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellence
• In depth experience of design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and concurrency

Desirable

• Salesforce has immediate opportunities for Database Distributed Systems Software Engineers
• Work on Database Internals/System layers: schema design, executor, system catalog, buffer cache, transaction logging, shared memory, deadlocks, etc
• Areas where you may be working on include Querying optimization, RDBMS, distributed store, execution, processing, rewrites, engine, metadata, parallelization, parser, etc
• Designing and implementing major security pieces of the salesforce.com core database infrastructure such as: replication, encryption messaging, application scaling using read-replicas, and multifaceted capacity management, pen tests, threat modeling exercises
• Building Database services on AWS, GCP or other public cloud substrates
• Use API’s to enable and scale database applications
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to address complicated problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available

• To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts