Salesforce Software Engineering LMTS 

United States, California, San Francisco 

375047542

Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and hands-on implementation of complex database features, with a focus on advanced transaction management strategies to ensure high performance, scalability, consistency and strict reliability within our distributed systems.
• Solve challenges with SQL execution that allows transactionally consistent DDL on distributed database systems, overseeing schema evolution and versioning, ensuring absolute consistency and minimal disruption in highly concurrent environments.
• Optimize DB operations at extreme scale, developing sophisticated patterns for data integrity, consistency, and efficient data manipulation across distributed datasets.
• Building Database services on AWS, GCP or other public cloud substrates.
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to address complicated problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex database-related issues in demanding production environments, ensuring rapid recovery, minimal disruption, and sustained high availability.
• Contribute to the roadmap for core database technologies and related frameworks, directly influencing future architectural decisions for relentless growth and innovation.

Required Qualifications:

• BS or higher degree in Computer Science
• MS or PhD in databases or distributed system is a plus
• Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
• 4+ years of progressive experience in software development, with a demonstrable, significant focus on large-scale, database-intensive, and highly distributed applications.
• Mastery of database transaction management concepts (advanced concurrency control mechanisms, isolation levels, and complex distributed transactions).
• Proficiency in designing DB applications for high-volume, complex data operations, including advanced optimization techniques, query tuning, and performance analysis for highly concurrent systems.
• Strong programming skills in at least one relevant language (e.g., Java, Python, PL/SQL), with a focus on systems-level programming for database interactions.
• PostgreSQL software development experience and community involvement as a contributor is a huge plus

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with the operational challenges and lifecycle management of large-scale distributed database systems.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) in a production, database-centric context.
• Knowledge of advanced database performance tuning, monitoring tools, and observability patterns specifically for distributed database systems.
• Experience withdatabase-as-a-serviceplatforms and a deep understanding of their underlying distributed architecture.

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to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $157,600 to $253,000. For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $172,000 to $276,100.