Software Engineer (SMTS)

• Are you a database expert, or passionate about building database technologies that support ambitious growth and innovation?
• We are looking for experienced Core Database Internals Engineers with a strong background in database internals and distributed systems to join a team responsible for architecting, developing, and testing the next generation of RDBMS
• You will join a team of highly skilled, motivated software engineers and database experts, designing and developing robust, highly scalable software to support Salesforce’s rapid growth
• You should have familiarity with database internals, distributed systems, or networking; an interest in systems programming; strong software engineering skills; and enthusiasm for working on complex, highly concurrent, highly scalable, and resilient systems
• You should have a track record of end-to-end ownership — architecture, design, implementation, monitoring, testing, and product support — on large, mission-critical systems at petabyte scale
• Areas you may work on include logging/recovery, distributed lock management, replication, high availability, compression, cache management, encryption, scale-out, monitoring, and serviceability
• This is a fast-paced, collaborative, agile, hybrid team that values end-to-end service ownership, from concept through architecture, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and customer support
• Lead a team to design and develop core database system functionality
• Develop new architecture and designs to solve complex scalability problems
• Generate ideas to improve robustness and performance
• Build comprehensive functional and system tests for your area of responsibility and for overall database quality
• Debug issues, conduct root cause analysis, and diagnose defects
• Actively participate in the release and deployment process

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- BS or higher degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong Java or C programming skills
• Deep expertise with distributed systems and consensus algorithms
• 3+ years of technical leadership in architecture and design of enterprise server platforms or systems
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with a results-oriented approach
• 3+ years of industry experience in systems or database internals programming
• Ability to learn quickly and deliver high-quality code in a fast-paced, dynamic, agile team environment
• Experience with highly concurrent multi-threaded/multi-process data structures and design
• PostgreSQL software development experience and community contribution is a plus
• Experience building a high-performance, large-scale database platform- This posting is to fill a vacancy on our team, unless otherwise noted