Software Engineering Principal or Architect - Distributed Systems

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Software Engineering

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Our Data Cloud engineering teams are responsible for innovating and maintaining multiple large scale distributed systems micro services that act on the big data that is present in our data lake. Our users count on our platform to be highly reliable, lightning fast, supremely secure, and to preserve all of their customizations and integrations every time we ship. You will need deep experience with concurrency, large scale systems, proficiency with solving real-world data management challenges, a strong understanding of how to craft solutions that are highly available, and a proven ability to design, develop, and optimize the core back-end systems.

Your Impact:

• Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on our public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba

• Designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers

• Using and contributing to open source technology (Apache Iceberg, Spark.)

• Developing Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform

• Writing microservices on containerization frameworks such as Kubernetes, Docker

• Resolving complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance

• Eat, sleep, and breathe services. You have experience balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt

• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to address complex problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available

Required Skills:

• A related technical degree required

• 10+ years backend software development experience

• Deep knowledge of programming in Java, Spark etc.

• Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a critical service

• Experience with Agile development methodology and Test Driven Development

• Experience with critical infrastructure services including, monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting applications  

In office (SF, SEA, Bellevue) expectations are 10 days/a quarter to support customers and/or collaborate with their teams.

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For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $211,500 to $351,800.

For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $230,800 to $384,100.

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. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.