Hybrid Database Engineer

at Salesforce

• Job title: Database Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $157,600 - $216,700 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Java, Jenkins, Kubernetes, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Python, Spinnaker, SQL, Terraform, Zookeeper, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• Database Cloud Engineer ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance of Salesforce's cloud database infrastructure. Collaborate across teams in a global environment for a leading SaaS platform.

Responsibilities

• Play a mission-critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of Salesforce's vast cloud database infrastructure.
• Help power the backbone of one of the largest SaaS platforms in the world.
• Bring a DevOps mindset and deep database expertise to architect and operate resilient, secure, and performant database environments across public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP).
• Collaborate across systems, storage, networking, and applications to deliver cloud-native reliability solutions at massive scale.
• Engage in 24*7 support responsibility within Europe.

Requirements

• Bachelors in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• A minimum of 5+ years of experience as a Database Engineer, or similar role is required.
• Expertise in Database and SQL performance tuning in one of the relational database.
• Knowledge and hands on experience with Postgres database is a plus
• Broad and deep knowledge of at least 2 relational databases, including Oracle, PostgreSQL & MySQL.
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms (such as AWS or GCP) is highly desirable and considered a strong asset.
• Experience with related cloud technologies: Docker, Spinnaker, Terraform, Helm, Jenkins, GIT, etc.
• Exposure to zookeeper fundamentals & Kubernetes is highly desirable.
• Working knowledge of SQL and at least one procedural language such as Python, Go, or Java, along with a basic understanding of C.
• A solid understanding of coding is highly preferred.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and Experienced with Production Incident Management / Root Cause analysis.
• Experience with mission critical distributed systems service, including supporting Database Production Infrastructure with 24x7x365 support responsibilities.
• Exposure to a fast pace environment with a large scale cloud infrastructure setup.
• Excellent speaking-listening-writing skills, attention to detail, proactive self-starter.

Benefits

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