Lead Software Engineer, Distributed File Systems/Cloud Platform
Salesforce1 day ago
Base Salary
$173k - $286k/yr
Responsibilities
- Research, design, develop, update, and enhance distributed filesystem and network software.
- Build scalable, efficient, production-ready components and algorithms for a multi-tenant SaaS cloud platform.
- Conduct code reviews, automate deployment processes, maintain documentation, and contribute to planning and retrospectives.
- Lead, collaborate, communicate, mentor junior engineers, and provide technical guidance.
- Work with cross-functional teams to deliver roadmap objectives and shared business goals.
- Resolve complex technical issues and improve system scalability, robustness, and availability.
- Troubleshoot owned services and participate in the on-call rotation to maintain operational availability.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software development experience with mastery of systems design, programming languages, and platforms.
- Deep knowledge of designing distributed filesystems in on-premises and cloud environments.
- Strong object-oriented programming, Java, Python, scripting, and SQL skills.
- Experience with relational and non-relational databases, including PostgreSQL and Trino.
- Experience developing SaaS products on public cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Proven experience designing and developing distributed systems at scale, including queues, locks, scheduling, event-driven architecture, and workload distribution.
- Strong understanding of software development best practices and demonstrated leadership skills.
- Preferred experience with design patterns, big data or machine learning, S3, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Experience working in a fast-paced, rapidly growing multinational organization is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model.
- Time-off programs, medical, dental, vision, and mental health support.
- Paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and employee stock purchasing program.
- Base salary range of $172,500-$260,100 annually, or $207,800-$285,800 annually in select San Francisco and New York City metropolitan areas; compensation figures excluded from benefit details.
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About Salesforce
Salesforce builds cloud-based customer relationship management software and a broader Customer 360 platform for sales, service, marketing, commerce, and analytics, sold by subscription to businesses and public-sector organizations. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Francisco, it trades on the NYSE under the symbol CRM. Its portfolio includes Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, MuleSoft integration, Tableau analytics, and Slack for collaboration, with extensive developer tools and APIs.