Lead Backend Engineer

Who you are

• Mastery in Systems design & Mastery of programming language(s) and platforms 8+ 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
• 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

What the job involves

• 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
• 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
• 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

The application process

• End Date: October 30, 2026

Benefits

• Medical Care
• Life Insurance
• Retirement Savings
• Employee Assistance Programs
• With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year