Salesforce · 11 hours ago
Software Engineer (Big Data) -Lead/Principal
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$158K/yr - $307K/yr
7+ years expSalesforce is the #1 AI CRM, dedicated to driving customer success through innovation and technology. The role involves leading the development of large-scale distributed systems and contributing to the Big Data Platform Services team, focusing on the architecture and operation of platforms in both public and private cloud environments.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingCRMSaaSSales EnablementSoftware
Responsibilities
Working with Phoenix, HBase, MapReduce, Yarn, Kafka, Spark, Hive, Presto, or equivalent large-scale distributed systems technologies on a modern containerized deployment stack
Become an Open Source contributor by working with teams that have PMCs and committers on various Apache projects
Building Database services on AWS, GCP or other public cloud substrates
Eat, sleep, and breathe services. You have experience balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt
Designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers
Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to address complex problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available
Qualification
Required
A related technical degree required
7+ years backend software development experience
Deep knowledge of programming languages: Java, C++, and/or Python
Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a critically important service
Experience with Agile development methodology and Test Driven Development
Experience using telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellence
Have strong, heartfelt opinions on CAP theorem, can sketch out four different consistency models on a single napkin and defend each of them, and understand Paxos, Raft, and Zookeeper at an implementation level
Benefits
Wellbeing reimbursement
Generous parental leave
Adoption assistance
Fertility benefits
Time off programs
Medical
Dental
Vision
Mental health support
Paid parental leave
Life and disability insurance
401(k)
Employee stock purchasing program
Company
Salesforce
Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$65.38MKey Investors
Starboard ValueEmergence CapitalHalsey Minor
2022-10-18Post Ipo Equity
2004-06-23IPO
2003-01-01Series Unknown· $1M
Leadership Team
Arundhati Bhattacharya
CEO & Chairperson, Salesforce India and South Asia
Marc Benioff
Chair & CEO
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