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Software Engineering
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About Salesforce
We're Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good you've come to the right place.
Role Description
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. As part of building our team in India, we are looking for engineers and leaders who are passionate about working on the RDBMS technology of massive scale and one that thrives with continuous innovation.
Required Skills And Experience
The team is seeking a highly qualified and energetic Principal Software
Engineer who will be responsible for working on development scalable, resilient and fault tolerant transactional and distributed systems with primary focus on the data storage. The Principal Software Engineer will be responsible for requirements, architecture/design and hands-on implementation.
- 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
- You should have 15+ years of professional experience, or a M.Tech. in a relevant academic field and 12+ years of professional experience. Experience with relational databases is a big plus.
- 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.
BENEFITS & PERKS
- Comprehensive benefits package including well-being reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more!
- World-class enablement and on-demand training with Trailhead.com
- Exposure to executive thought leaders and regular 1:1 coaching with leadership
- Volunteer opportunities and participation in our 1:1:1 model for giving back to the community
- For more details, visit https://www.salesforcebenefits.com/
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