Principal Software Engineering, Salesforce

• 15+ years of software development and engineering experience, 5+ years in a technical leadership role
• Hands-on experience designing, building and operating large scale distributed systems, identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities, and making data driven cost performance tradeoffs to influence design decisions
• Demonstrated experience of leading initiatives spanning multiple teams and leveraging deep domain expertise to influence tech roadmap planning and execution
• Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate across multiple teams and stakeholders to drive business outcomes
• Experience, mentoring, and investing in the development of engineers and peers
• Ability to reverse engineer solutions via independent code and architecture review, envision, define and then contribute to delivery of availability improvement refactoring projects
• Mastery of one or more object oriented delivery with languages such as Java, Golang, APEX, Python
• Deep experience working with core web technologies: HTTP, JSON, REST, XML
• Proficiency with databases including Oracle or other relational and/or NoSQL solutions
• Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a critical service
• Running critical infrastructure services; monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing and reporting
• Subject matter expertise on Service ownership best practices, SLO/I/A definition, driving proactive operational awareness and experience with Incident / Problem management
• Thorough knowledge of Agile development methodology with experience in both Test / Behavioral Driven Development practices

Desirable

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems
• SRE ensures that Salesforce services have reliability, capacity, performance and the availability to deliver our customer's needs and a rate of improvement that our customers expect
• You will embed with product owning teams, define the availability roadmap and deliver directly against it
• Most importantly, you will mature the SRE practice, mentoring and actively developing the engineers around you. Your success is measured by scaling the impact and delivery of your community
• Spearhead and enable the culture of Service Ownership to flourish and thrive. Define healthy service ownership practices and work with embedded teams to develop the knowledge and ownership practice
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through to deployment, operation and refinement
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews
• Develop full paved path observability platform integrations and necessary automations to maintain service, system and product health
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for and delivering changes that improve reliability and velocity
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless post mortems. Uphold the quality and high standards of post mortems as part of the Architect community at Salesforce
• Develop and grow the engineering talent around you

• With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year

Total funding: $64.5m

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.