Lead Software Engineer- Distributed Systems

Salesforce•San Francisco, CA

11h•Remote

About The Position

Salesforce is seeking a backend Java engineer with distributed systems, micro-services, and public cloud experience to join the Connectivity and Edge teams. These teams are responsible for delivering complex software products that provide optimized and secure connectivity for Salesforce's global infrastructure. The role will lead the design, development, testing, and operations of the Edge Control plane service, which automates Edge enablement for customers, and the Edge Intelligence service, which provides real-time analytics for self-healing and self-optimization of Edge and Connectivity services. The ideal candidate will have experience designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems, balancing live-site management with feature delivery and technical debt retirement, and managing large, complex systems in the cloud. They should be passionate about automation and capable of delivering functionality in an agile environment with data-driven feedback loops.

Requirements

10+ years of engineering experience
Deep knowledge of object-oriented programming and experience with at least one object-oriented programming language, preferably Java.
Solid knowledge of Database technologies
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
Public cloud engineering on GCP, AWS, Alibaba and/or Azure platforms
Experience with container orchestration systems Kubernetes, Docker, Helios, Fleet or Mesos
Experience owning and operating multiple instances of mission-critical infrastructure services including, monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting applications

Nice To Haves

Experience with open source projects
SOAP/REST APIs and general API design
Knowledge of network technologies, such as TCP/IP, DNS, TLS termination, HTTP proxies, etc.
Experience with Big data technologies like Spark, Kafka, Druid
CI/CD experience with Jenkins

Responsibilities

Lead the design, development, testing, and operations of the Edge Control plane service.
Lead the design, development, testing, and operations of the Edge Intelligence service.
Automate Edge enablement for customers.
Provide real-time analytics capabilities for self-healing and self-optimization of Edge and Connectivity services.
Balance live-site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt.
Resolve complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance.
Build reliable, self-healing services on unreliable hardware.
Drive and deliver thin slices of functionality on a regular cadence with data-driven feedback loops in an agile environment.
Create, maintain, and share technical documentation.