Job Details

Our Salesforce Database (SDB) team provided a highly available database for Salesforce applications. Within the large SDB team, we provide a highly durable and available distributed storage for public clouds. We are defining the next generation of trusted enterprise computing in the cloud. We're a fast-paced, metrics driven team. We're highly collaborative and work across all areas of our technology stack. We live and breathe transactional systems, distributed systems and enterprise reliability, availability and scale.

Desired Skills and Experience

The team is seeking a highly qualified and energetic Senior/Lead Software
Engineer who will be responsible for working on development scalable, resilient and fault tolerant transactional and distributed systems. The Senior/Lead Software Engineer will be responsible both for design and hands-on implementation.

Desired Skills:

• Experience designing, developing scalable, resilient and fault tolerant transactional and distributed systems in enterprise production environments
• Highly skilled in Java or C in a Unix/ Linux Environment, with an understanding of modern object-oriented programming techniques and design patterns
• Experience using telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellence
• Ability to learn quickly and deliver high quality code in a fast-paced, dynamic team environment
• A meticulous and detailed oriented engineer, responsible for writing one's own functional and unit tests and help review and test teammates' code
• Familiar with Agile development methodology and committed to continual improvement of team performance
• Effective communication, strong leadership skills, team player who is capable of mentoring and being mentored by others
• Inventive and creative; on task and able to deliver incrementally and on time
• MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field
• Must have graduated in the past 12 months to be eligible

Highly Available Distributed Systems

Areas where you may be working on include highly scalable, highly performant distributed systems with highly available and durable data storage capabilities that ensure high availability of the stack above that includes databases. A thorough understanding of distributed systems, system programming, working with system resources is required. Practical knowledge for challenges regarding clustering solutions, hands-on experience in deploying your code in the public cloud
environments, working knowledge of Kubernetes and working with APIs provided by various public cloud vendors to handle data are highly desired skills