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Senior Software Engineer, Database Infrastructure
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$167K/yr - $253K/yr
5+ years expSalesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where ambition meets action and innovation is a way of life. The role involves operating and enhancing a large, highly-available database infrastructure, collaborating with engineering teams, and developing tools for self-service capabilities.
CollaborationEnterprise SoftwareMessagingProductivity ToolsSaaS
Responsibilities
Operate and enhance our large, highly-available database infrastructure, utilizing technologies such as MySQL and Vitess
Develop tools to enable self-service and self-managing capabilities of our database infrastructure so that other teams can operate full-stack while rapidly building new features for our customers
Collaborate with engineering teams on their database storage needs, and advise them throughout the development lifecycle
Write code to capture database performance, and create tools and dashboards to provide actionable insight into that data
Participate in our on-call rotation and collaborate with our operations team to triage and resolve production issues
Support FedRAMP and DoD SRG activities
Qualification
Required
Have been working in data storage, core infrastructure, or distributed system-owning teams with increasing responsibilities for 5+ years
Have professional experience using Go, PHP/Hacklang, Python, Ruby, or Java
Write code that can be easily understood by others with an eye towards clarity and maintainability. Collaborate with other teams to integrate new features of your platform or adopt self-service features
Operated at least one distributed system, at scale and in a team environment. Some examples include: a relational database like MySQL/Postgres, or systems like Kafka, Cassandra, or ElasticSearch
Deployed server software on Linux, and then operated it at scale. You've debugged its problems, and analyzed and optimized its performance
Have experience operating cloud infrastructure, especially AWS
Are familiar with deployment automation/configuration management tools like Chef, Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet
Are a very strong communicator. You're excited to explain complex technical concepts and share your knowledge with different audiences
Benefits
Time off programs
Medical
Dental
Vision
Mental health support
Paid parental leave
Life and disability insurance
401(k)
Employee stock purchasing program
Company
Slack
Slack is a cloud-based communication and collaboration platform for teams.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.39BKey Investors
SoftBank Vision FundThrive CapitalSocial Capital
2020-12-01Acquired
2019-06-20IPO
2019-01-28Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Kristen Swanson
VP of Customer Insights
Richard Hasslacher
VP of Global Alliances & channels
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