Hybrid Senior Software Engineer, Database Infrastructure

at Salesforce

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer, Database Infrastructure
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $167,300 - $253,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Cassandra, Chef, Cloud, ElasticSearch, Java, Kafka, Linux, MySQL, PHP, Postgres, Puppet, Python, Ruby, Terraform, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer enhancing Slack's highly available database infrastructure for AI-driven CRM systems. Collaborating with engineering teams and operating large-scale distributed databases.

Responsibilities

• Operate and enhance our large, highly-available database infrastructure, utilizing technologies such as MySQL and Vitess.
• Develop tools to enable self-service and self-managing capabilities of our database infrastructure so that other teams can operate full-stack while rapidly building new features for our customers.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on their database storage needs, and advise them throughout the development lifecycle.
• Write code to capture database performance, and create tools and dashboards to provide actionable insight into that data.
• Participate in our on-call rotation and collaborate with our operations team to triage and resolve production issues.
• Support FedRAMP and DoD SRG activities.

Requirements

• Have been working in data storage, core infrastructure, or distributed system-owning teams with increasing responsibilities for 5+ years.
• Have professional experience using Go, PHP/Hacklang, Python, Ruby, or Java.
• Write code that can be easily understood by others with an eye towards clarity and maintainability.
• Collaborate with other teams to integrate new features of your platform or adopt self-service features.
• Operated at least one distributed system, at scale and in a team environment.
• Some examples include: a relational database like MySQL/Postgres, or systems like Kafka, Cassandra, or ElasticSearch.
• Deployed server software on Linux, and then operated it at scale.
• You’ve debugged its problems, and analyzed and optimized its performance.
• Have experience operating cloud infrastructure, especially AWS.
• Are familiar with deployment automation/configuration management tools like Chef, Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
• Are a very strong communicator.

Benefits

• time off programs
• medical
• dental
• vision
• mental health support
• paid parental leave
• life and disability insurance
• 401(k)
• employee stock purchasing program