Lead Software Engineer, Embedded Systems
About the role
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.
Job Duties
- Envision and Build new and exciting components/frameworks in distributed filesystems in an ever-growing and evolving market technology to provide scale and efficiency.
- Design and Develop high-quality, production-ready code that can be used by millions of users of our cloud platform.
- Build efficient components/algorithms on a microservice multi-tenant SaaS cloud distributed filesystem environment.
- Code review, mentoring junior engineers, and providing technical guidance to the team.
- Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialized utility programs.
- Update software or enhance existing software capabilities.
- Contribute to the success of the scrum team through code reviews, deployment process automation, documentation, refinement, planning, and retros.
- Lead, collaborate, communicate, and mentor others on the team and in the company.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver a roadmap to meet shared business goals.
- Resolve complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system scalability, robustness, and availability.
- Troubleshoot issues with the services that team develops and owns.
- Create, maintain, and share technical documentation used by engineers and other team members.
Required Skills
- Mastery in Systems design
- Mastery of programming language(s) and platforms
- 12+ years of software development experience
- Deep knowledge of designing distributed filesystems in both on-prem & cloud
- Deep knowledge of object-oriented programming and other scripting languages: Java, Python
- Strong SQL skills and experience with relational and non-relational databases e.g. (Postgress/Trino/).
- Experience with developing SAAS products over public cloud infrastructure - AWS/Azure/GCP
- Proven experience in designing and developing distributed systems at scale
- Proficiency in queues, locks, scheduling, event-driven architecture, and workload distribution, along with a deep understanding of relational database and non-relational databases
- Deeper understanding of software development best practices and demonstrate leadership skills
Preferred Skills
- Design patterns
- Experience with Big-Data/ML and S3
- Hands-on experience with Streaming technologies like Kafka
- Experience with Elastic Search
- Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker
- Experience working in a high-paced and rapidly growing multinational organization
Benefits
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.
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