Senior Software Engineer - Database Store Services

Software Engineering PMTS Database Store Services

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Software Engineering

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About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

About Salesforce:

Salesforce has immediate opportunities for software developers who want their lines of code to have significant and measurable positive impact for users, the company's bottom line, and the industry. You will be working with a group of world-class engineers to build the breakthrough features our customers will love, adopt, and use while keeping our trusted CRM platform stable and scalable. The software engineer role at Salesforce encompasses architecture, design, implementation, and testing to ensure we build products right and release them with high quality.

We pride ourselves on writing high quality, maintainable code that strengthens the stability of the product and makes our lives easier. We embrace the hybrid model and celebrate the individual strengths of each team member while cultivating everyone on the team to grow into the best version of themselves. We believe that autonomous teams with the freedom to make decisions will empower the individuals, the product, the company, and the customers they serve to thrive.

Your Impact

Our team at Salesforce is responsible for a modern, natively multi-tenanted transactional database system catering to mission critical workloads of our customers. Our underlying building blocks of database compute, storage and backup services run in public cloud and interplay together in our stack to provide superpowers that helps our largest customers with demanding business needs. We are looking to reimagine the way we make our services available for different enterprise-wide relational database use-cases. 

Job Description - PMTS Database Store Services

We are looking for senior engineering talent to deliver on our roadmaps for database cloud store management and archival services promising high availability, durability, recoverability, performance and scale as a seamless interoperable resilient solution.  Candidate must have strong distributed systems knowledge, public cloud store skills, interest in system programming with exceptional software engineering skills, and relish the opportunity to work on very complex, highly concurrent, highly scalable and resilient systems. Database systems and/or storage domain knowledge is an added advantage. Practical knowledge for challenges regarding clustering solutions, hands-on experience in deploying your code in the public cloud environments is highly desired. Candidate will join a team of world class, highly motivated software engineers and database experts to design and develop robust and highly scalable software products to support large mission critical systems at petabyte scale.

You responsibilities include:

* Own design and development to deliver technical outcomes on all requirements of performance, scale, availability, security and quality standards
* Help with backlog planning, cross-team dependency planning and work with the team to execute on the plan.
* Interact with broader technical teams to integrate the projects/features and collaborate tightly on architecture, design, code and test strategy reviews
* Demonstrate engineering expertise by working closely with architects, and engineering managers to execute on the strategy for your feature areas and execute the roadmap flawlessly 
* Own and resolve Customer issues with utmost urgency and adhering to customer trust and service ownership mindset
* Drive cross team collaborative work environment with other scrum teams that fosters autonomy, innovation, learning, respect and transparency while holding a high bar for delivery 

Required skills:

* Excellent communication skills and problem-solving skills

* 14+ years in software development which includes experience in varying aspects of development  cycle, including design, coding, testing, service deployment, and performance characterisation, and possessing 3+ years of distributed systems experience

* Experience designing, developing scalable, resilient and fault tolerant transactional and distributed systems in enterprise production environments. Experience on storage and/or databases systems is an advantage

* Familiar with Agile development methodology and committed to continual improvement of team performance

* Experience in SaaS development environment, cloud and container technologies. Building and operating clusters is an advantage with working knowledge of associated tools and technologies 

* Good knowledge of Kubernetes and working with APIs provided by various public cloud vendors to handle data is highly desired

* Highly skilled in Java or C/C++ in a Unix/ Linux Environment, with an understanding of modern object-oriented programming techniques and design patterns

* Experience in building and leveraging telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellence

* Track record of delivering innovative and complex features for a major software system preferably in public cloud.

BENEFITS & PERKS

* Comprehensive benefits package including well-being reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more!

* World-class enablement and on-demand training with Trailhead.com

* Exposure to executive thought leaders and regular 1:1 coaching with leadership

* Volunteer opportunities and participation in our 1:1:1 model for giving back to the community

* For more details, visit https://www.salesforcebenefits.com/

Why Join Us:

At Salesforce, we’re building the future of enterprise data and AI. You’ll join a world-class engineering team redefining how data is processed, analyzed, and activated at scale. Your work will directly power AI, personalization, and real-time intelligence across the Salesforce ecosystem, impacting millions of users and customers globally.

If you’re passionate about distributed systems, cutting-edge data technology, and solving complex problems at scale — we’d love to hear from you.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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Experience Level

Senior Level