Senior Software Engineer, Data Ingestion
Salesforce1 day ago
Atlanta, GA, USA +3 moreSenior
Base Salary
$173k - $286k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable streaming and batch pipelines for structured and unstructured data ingestion.
- Design and implement lakehouse solutions and production use cases for customers.
- Improve service and pipeline reliability and performance through AI-assisted or agentic tools.
- Automate dataset lifecycle management, including schema evolution, metadata, backfills, deprecation, and migration.
- Lead technical initiatives end to end and collaborate with cross-functional partners.
- Coach and mentor engineers across the team and organization.
- Write, review, and provide feedback on technical design proposals.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship, no dual citizenship, willingness to undergo a background check, and eligibility for GovSlack authorization are required.
- At least 7 years of software or data engineering experience is required.
- Hands-on experience building applications with streaming and lakehouse technologies such as Kafka, Kafka Connect, Flink, Spark Streaming, Iceberg, Hudi, or Delta is required.
- Experience building and maintaining batch data pipelines with Spark, Airflow, EMR, and S3 or equivalent is required.
- Proficiency with SQL, Python, Java, Scala, Go, or equivalent object-oriented or functional programming languages is required.
- Experience building robust distributed services with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS ECS or EKS, Terraform, and Grafana is required.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted software development and tools such as Claude Code or Codex is preferred.
- Strong written, verbal, communication, collaboration, and technical explanation skills are preferred.
Benefits
- Benefits include time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- The role includes eligibility for applicable incentive compensation, equity, and benefits; the posting lists base salary ranges of $172,500-$260,100 annually generally and $207,800-$285,800 annually in select San Francisco and New York City metropolitan areas.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkAWSDockerGoGrafanaJavaKubernetesPythonScalaSQLTerraform
Categories
Data Engineering
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.