Hybrid Software Engineer, Search Infrastructure

at Salesforce

• Job title: Software Engineer, Search Infrastructure
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $117,200 - $223,900 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Chef, Distributed Systems, ElasticSearch, Java, Kubernetes, PHP, Python, Ruby, Terraform, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Seattle, United States

About the role

• Software Engineer designing scalable information retrieval infrastructure for Slack. Collaborating with teams to maintain high availability and build new features.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable and resilient information retrieval infrastructure to power Slack search and other products
• Work with product engineering to conceptualize and build new features for our large (and growing!) user base
• Collaborate with team members to ensure high availability and reliability of a distributed search system
• Produce high-quality results by contributing heavily to team projects that have a significant impact on the business
• Actively own team features or systems and define their long-term health
• Improve the health of surrounding systems
• Deploy, configure, test, troubleshoot, maintain, upgrade Solr clusters and environments
• Plan resources and continuously optimize the infrastructure and configuration of our Solr clusters to maintain cluster health and search performance
• Assist support and operations teams in triaging and resolving production issues
• Mentor other engineers and deeply review code
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in building web applications and operating large scale distributed systems
• Worked with Solr, ElasticSearch, Lucene, or other search technology
• Exposure to infrastructure/ops tools and frameworks such as Terraform, Chef, and Kubernetes
• Proficient with functional or imperative programming languages — e.g., PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, C, or Java
• Track record of developing high-availability, performant, and scalable systems accessing large volumes of data over multiple clusters across different geographical regions
• Experience planning, implementing, and deploying software migrations and upgrades in a production environment
• Ability to contribute to technical architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions within the team
• Strong communicator capable of explaining complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Knowledge of computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience required

Benefits

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