Senior/Lead/Principal Engineer - Search

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Software Engineering

Job Details

About Salesforce

We’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.

We’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.

We’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.

What You Will Be Doing

Come help us shape the future of Commerce Search!

As part of one of the fastest growing clouds at Salesforce, the Commerce Search teams have an exciting long-term roadmap dedicated to building scalable services that will power searching for products and content amongst the world's most trusted brands. Since search is the entry point for most commerce shoppers, we play a critical role in our customers’ success.

We are a collaborative team that strives for quality in product, software engineering best practices, and focus on impact. We are looking for a Senior/Lead/Principal Software Engineer to join a new team in helping building out and scale our Search platform.

Responsibilities/Duties
Lead feature development throughout the software lifecycle: gather requirements, design, build, test, and deploy
Help scale our search services which need to support low latency and high throughput
Have experience with reliably delivering high-quality, distributed, testable, and scalable software
Mentor others in development technologies, tools, and processes
Present your own designs to internal/external groups and review designs of others
Develop test strategies, design automation frameworks, write unit/functional tests to drive up code coverage and automation metrics
Service ownership operate the service, improve supportability, and help resolve customer issues
Improve developer productivity through tooling and software engineering best practices
Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to address sophisticated problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available

Skills and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field—or equivalent practical experience.
A good understanding of object-oriented programming and experience in at least one object-oriented programming language, e.g. Java, C++.
At least 5 years of object oriented programming experience
Experience using Git / GitHub
Experience in automated testing including unit and functional testing using Java, JUnit, JSUnit, Selenium
Previous experience with SaaS development
Team player, get-it-done attitude and quick learner
Understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies
Experience with Search technologies like Lucene, Elasticsearch, Solr is a huge plus!
Experience working on building Search Platforms/features is a huge plus!

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For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $172,000 to $236,500.

For Massachusetts based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $157,600 to $216,700.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.