Senior​/Lead Software Engineer - Database​/Distributed Storage Engineering

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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.

• Work on development of scalable, resilient and fault-tolerant transactional and distributed systems.
• Design and implement software as part of a team, with emphasis on reliability, performance and scalability.

• 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 detail-oriented engineer, responsible for writing one s own functional and unit tests and helping 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
• 5-9+ years of professional experience, or an M.Sc. in a relevant field with 3-7+ years of professional experience; experience with relational databases and/or distributed storage; GCP is a plus

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 code in public cloud environments, working knowledge of Kubernetes and working with APIs provided by various public cloud vendors to handle data are highly desired skills.

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