Database Platform Development Senior/Lead/Principal Engineer

Salesforce • San Francisco, CA

283d • $157,600 - $334,600

About The Position

Salesforce has immediate opportunities for Database Distributed Systems Software Engineers! You will need familiarity with database internals, system programming, outstanding software engineering skills, and relish the opportunity to work on very sophisticated, highly concurrent, distributed systems. You must have a consistent record of success where you proven end to end ownership of architecture, design, implementation, testing, and product support.

Requirements

• A related technical degree required.
• Deep knowledge of object oriented programming and other scripting languages: Java, C++, C, Scala, Python, Shell.
• Experience with Agile development methodology and Testing.
• Experience using telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellence.
• In depth experience of design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and concurrency.

Nice To Haves

• Orchestration and utilization of query management is desired.
• Meta data management.
• Experience in optimizing infrastructure for scalability and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Work on Database Internals/System layers: schema design, executor, system catalog, buffer cache, transaction logging, shared memory, deadlocks, etc.
• Areas where you may be working on include Querying optimization, RDBMS, distributed store, execution, processing, rewrites, engine, metadata, parallelization, parser, etc.
• Designing and implementing major security pieces of the salesforce.com core database infrastructure such as: replication, encryption messaging, application scaling using read-replicas, and multifaceted capacity management, pen tests, threat modeling exercises.
• Building Database services on AWS, GCP or other public cloud substrates.
• Use API's to enable and scale database applications.
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation to address complicated problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available.

Benefits

• Base salary hiring range for Washington-based roles is $157,600 to $306,600.
• Base salary hiring range for California-based roles is $172,000 to $334,600.
• Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
• Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree