BACKEND ENGINEER

Company: Salesforce
Location: Seattle
Posted on: September 28, 2024

Job Description:

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.Job CategorySoftware EngineeringJob DetailsAbout SalesforceWe're Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too - driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good - you've come to the right place.Salesforce powers some of the largest companies on the globe with its core CRM offering. One of the components of this infrastructure that helps achieve the global scale involves network software that provides optimized and secure connectivity - between our customers and the application, between our data centers and customer applications. The Network Software team is responsible for delivering complex software products that deliver this experience to our customers. As our service and platform grow to fully embrace lights-out operations, single-click deploy to tens of thousands of nodes, and services that self-heal and self-optimize, we have to balance this with global scale and traffic distribution to enhance our end user experience.The Network Software team is hiring a Backend Engineer with distributed systems, micro-services, and public cloud experience to support this growth. The role will lead the design, development, testing, and operations of both CDN Orchestration and CDN visibility services designed, developed and operated by the Network Software team. CDN Orchestration services manage CDN enablement for millions of enterprise customers. We program a handful of commercial CDNs and a custom purpose-built CDN. CDN visibility services provide near real-time analytical and predictive AI capabilities that are used to heal and optimize our end user experience.Some attributes of successful candidates:Experience designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systemsEat, sleep, and breathe services. You'll have experience balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debtExperience with managing large, complex systems in the public cloud. Experience with AWS is desirableResolve complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performanceCapable of driving and delivering thin slices of functionality on a regular cadence with data-driven feedback loops in an agile environmentBe passionate about automationCreate, maintain and share technical documentation used by engineers and other team membersObsessed with providing premium customer experience.Experience with providing customer supportExcellent collaboration & communication skillsRequired Skills5+ years of engineering experienceA related 4-year technical degree requiredStrong knowledge of object oriented programming and experience with at least one object oriented programming languageSolid knowledge of Database technologiesExperience with Big data technologies like Spark, Kafka, DruidExperience with Agile development methodology and TestingExperience using telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellenceIn depth experience of design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and concurrency -Public cloud engineering on GCP, AWS, Alibaba and/or Azure platformsExperience with container orchestration systems Kubernetes, Docker, Helios, Fleet or MesosPreferred QualificationsExperience with open source projectsSOAP/REST APIs and general API designKnowledge of network technologies, such as TCP/IP, DNS, TLS termination, HTTP proxies, etc.CI/CD experience with JenkinsExperience owning and operating multiple instances of mission-critical infrastructure services including, monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting applicationsAccommodationsIf you require assistance due to a disability applying for open positions please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form.Posting StatementAt Salesforce we believe that the business of business is to improve the state of our world. Each of us has a responsibility to drive Equality in our communities and workplaces. We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives such as equal pay, employee resource groups, inclusive benefits, and more. Learn more about Equality at and explore our company benefits at .Salesforce is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Salesforce does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Salesforce will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Salesforce.---Salesforce welcomes all.Pursuant 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 $151,800 to $208,800.For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $165,600 to $227,700.Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.SummaryLocation: California - San Francisco; Washington - SeattleType: Full time

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