Senior/Lead Distributed Systems Software Engineer(Cloud Infra)

Salesforce Inc.
San Francisco, CA, United States
7 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
6 years minimum
Compensation
$117,200.0 - $313,700.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Amazon Web Services Amazon S3 Microsoft Azure Big Data Software as a Service Cloud Computing Code Review Computer Networks Relational Databases Database Queries Software Design Patterns
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File Systems Distributed Systems Elasticsearch Python (Programming Language) PostgreSQL Object-Oriented Software Development Scrum Methodology Salesforce.Com Software Engineering Software Systems Utility Software Software Organization Scripting Event Driven Architecture Kubernetes Apache Kafka Non-relational Database Video Streaming Terraform Docker

Job description

Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialized utility programs. Update software or enhance existing software capabilities. Contribute to the success of the scrum team through code reviews, deployment process automation, documentation, refinement, planning, and retros. Lead, collaborate, communicate, and mentor others on the team and in the company. Work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver a roadmap to meet shared business goals. Resolve complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system scalability, robustness, and availability. Troubleshoot issues with the services that team develops and owns. Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to keep services operational and highly available. Create, maintain, and share technical documentation used by engineers and other team members. Telecommuting is an option. Some travel to Salesforce offices may be required.

Requirements

  • Mastery in Systems design and platforms with 6+ years of software development experience
  • Deep knowledge of designing distributed filesystems in both on-prem & cloud
  • Deep knowledge of object-oriented programming and other scripting languages: Java, Python along with Strong SQL skills and experience with relational and non-relational databases e.g. (Postgress/Trino/).
  • Experience with developing SAAS products over public cloud infrastructure - AWS/Azure/GCP.
  • Proven experience in designing and developing distributed systems at scale.
  • Proficiency in queues, locks, scheduling, event-driven architecture, and workload distribution, along with a deep understanding of relational database and non-relational databases.
  • A deeper understanding of software development best practices and demonstrate leadership skills.

Preferred Skills: Design patterns & Experience with Big-Data/ML and S3 Hands-on experience with Streaming technologies like Kafka Experience with Elastic Search Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker Experience working in a high-paced and rapidly growing multinational organization

Benefits & conditions

benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.

In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.

The typical base salary range for this position is $117,200 - $313,700 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $141,200 - $344,700 annually.

The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.

About the company

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword - it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we’re looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce’s core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

Salesforce has immediate opportunities for Lead software engineers who want their lines of code to have significant and measurable positive impact for users. We pride ourselves on writing high-quality, maintainable code that strengthens the stability of the product and makes our lives easier. We embrace the hybrid model and celebrate the individual strengths of each team member while encouraging everyone on the team to grow into the best version of themselves. As a Lead Software Engineer, your job responsibilities will include: Envision and Build new and exciting components/frameworks in distributed filesystems in an ever-growing and evolving market technology to provide scale and efficiency. Design and Develop high-quality, production-ready code that can be used by millions of users of our cloud platform. Build efficient components/algorithms on a microservice multi-tenant SaaS cloud distributed filesystem environment, Code review, mentoring junior engineers, and providing technical guidance to the team, Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications - without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion

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