Lead Distributed Systems Engineer (Cloud Infra)

Salesforce Lead Software Engineer Job Description

Salesforce has immediate opportunities for Lead software engineers who want their lines of code to have significant and measurable positive impact for users. We pride ourselves on writing high-quality, maintainable code that strengthens the stability of the product and makes our lives easier. We embrace the hybrid model and celebrate the individual strengths of each team member while encouraging everyone on the team to grow into the best version of themselves.

Your Responsibilities

As a Lead Software Engineer, your job responsibilities will include:

• Envision and Build new and exciting components/frameworks in distributed filesystems in an ever-growing and evolving market technology to provide scale and efficiency.
• Design and Develop high-quality, production-ready code that can be used by millions of users of our cloud platform.
• Build efficient components/algorithms on a microservice multi-tenant SaaS cloud distributed filesystem environment.
• Code review, mentoring junior engineers, and providing technical guidance to the team.

Job Duties

• Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialized utility programs.
• Update software or enhance existing software capabilities.
• Contribute to the success of the scrum team through code reviews, deployment process automation, documentation, refinement, planning, and retros.
• Lead, collaborate, communicate, and mentor others on the team and in the company.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver a roadmap to meet shared business goals.
• Resolve complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system scalability, robustness, and availability.
• Troubleshoot issues with the services that team develops and owns.
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to keep services operational and highly available.
• Create, maintain, and share technical documentation used by engineers and other team members.
• Telecommuting is an option. Some travel to Salesforce offices may be required.

Required Skills

• Mastery in: Systems design and platforms with 12+ years of software development experience.
• Deep knowledge of: designing distributed filesystems in both on-prem & cloud.
• Deep knowledge of: object-oriented programming and other scripting languages: Java, Python along with Strong SQL skills and experience with relational and non-relational databases e.g. (Postgress/Trino/).
• Experience with: developing SAAS products over public cloud infrastructure - AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Proven experience in: designing and developing distributed systems at scale.
• Proficiency in: queues, locks, scheduling, event-driven architecture, and workload distribution, along with a deep understanding of relational database and non-relational databases.
• A deeper understanding of: software development best practices and demonstrate leadership skills.

Preferred Skills

• Design patterns & Experience with Big-Data/ML and S3
• Hands-on experience with Streaming technologies like Kafka
• Experience with Elastic Search
• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker
• Experience working in a high-paced and rapidly growing multinational organization