Distributed Storage Engineering

Salesforce•Seattle, WA

About The Position

About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. IN SCHOOL OR GRADUATED WITHIN THE LAST 12 MONTHS? PLEASE VISIT FUTURE FORCE FOR OPPORTUNITIES Our Salesforce Database (SDB) team provides 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. 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. 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 Unleash Your Potential When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

Requirements

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 5-9+ years of professional experience, or a M.Sc. in a relevant academic field and 3-7+ years of professional experience.
A thorough understanding of distributed systems, system programming, working with system resources is required.

Nice To Haves

Experience with relational databases and or distributed storage, GCP is a big plus.
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

Responsibilities

responsible for working on development scalable, resilient and fault tolerant transactional and distributed systems.
responsible both for design and hands-on implementation.