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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

We are looking for a Senior Database Development Engineer to deliver features in the database archival technology. Candidate must have strong cloud infrastructure skills coupled with experience/exposure to database internals/backup/restore domain background to work with a team that is responsible for architecting, developing, testing, and maintaining the service. In this role, you will work in a scrum team responsible on all aspects of Agile processes and work closely with a team of top talent and highly motivated software engineers with varying levels of expertise.

Our team consists of smart and tenacious engineers dedicated to excellence through product and platform expertise and uncompromising integrity. While we understand that delivery is important, we consider quality to be our highest priority. The code we deliver must be secure, perform well at scale, and provide the functionality promised to our customers.

As we scale our services in both in size and complexity - we must consistently provide the uptime and predictable performance that our customers demand. Our team is involved in enhancing, building, automating, and managing Salesforce Database Archival service and supporting service delivery pipelines and artifacts; adding and enhancing product capabilities, life cycle management components, and scaling and healing solutions; observability dashboards, runbooks and troubleshooting guides. Our goal is deliver highly available, elastically scalable and cost-optimized Services on all Salesforce-supported substrates and environments

You will need familiarity with cloud infrastructure, archival/database internals, distributed systems, networking, exceptional software engineering skills, and relish the opportunity to work on very complex, highly concurrent, highly scalable and resilient systems. You must have a proven track record of success where you demonstrated end to end ownership of design, implementation, monitoring, testing, and product support on large mission critical systems at petabyte scale.

Your Impact

• As a seasoned software engineer of the database archival team, you will be responsible for:
• Own design and development to deliver technical outcomes on all product and platform-related issues
• Help with backlog planning, cross-team dependency planning and drive the team to execute on the plan.
• Design and develop high-quality code to improve archival service reliability, availability, quality, performance and scalability
• Develop test strategies, design automation frameworks, and write unit/functional tests to drive up code coverage and automation metrics
• Collaborating with broader engineering teams, architects, and engineering managers to execute on the strategy for your feature areas, help plan the backlogs, and enable your Scrum team to implement that roadmap flawlessly
• Owning and resolving Customer issues with utmost urgency and adhering to customer trust. Troubleshoot issues with the services that our team develops and owns, be passionate about automation
• Drive cross-team collaborative work environment with other Scrum teams and engineering teams that fosters autonomy, innovation, learning, respect and transparency while holding a high bar for delivery

Required Skills:

• 10+ years in software development which includes experience in varying aspects of the development  cycle, including design, coding, testing, and performance characterization.

• Experienced with developing backup/restore/database features for cloud database

• Experience with Scrum in an Agile development environment

• Prior experience with using Kubernetes to build and operate/manage the stateful application clusters

• Knowledge of infra structure as code for large complex systems - helm/terraform

• Experience in the public cloud technologies like AWS, mainly on EKS, EC2, IAM, VPC, S3

• Experience using telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellence will be an advantage

• Deep knowledge of object oriented programming and experience with at least one scripting programming language: Java, Python

• Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks and tests

• CI/CD automation experience, including the understanding of key open sources technologies like Jenkins, Spinnaker, and Docker.

• Excellent communication skills and problem-solving skills

• Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)

 

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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