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Senior Software Engineer, Backend Services

Posted 10 Days Ago
Burlington, MA
Junior
Burlington, MA
Junior
As a Software Engineer, you will design and develop infrastructure services for multi-cloud environments, focusing on automation and system performance while collaborating in an Agile team.
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Software Engineering

Job Details

About Salesforce

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About the team

Join us in working on a top company initiative expanding Salesforce into new markets and public cloud environments. Our team develops critical foundational services that power Salesforce’s infrastructure and preserve customer trust in Salesforce’s products. You will be building highly scalable and resilient Microservices that enable Salesforce’s ecosystem of products to be deployed onto multiple Cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, and Alibaba.
We are looking for an enthusiastic Software Engineer to join our team and build intelligent solutions from the ground up. You will combine your experience along with ingenuity to provide multi-cloud experience to our customers. We use a variety of programming languages as well as cutting edge technologies towards the design, development and delivery of these services.
Your Impact:

  • Design and develop foundational infrastructure and services running on containers (Docker, Kubernetes) deployed on public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Alibaba
  • Deliver cloud infrastructure automation using tools such as Spinnaker, Terraform, and Helm charts
  • Resolve complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance
  • Collaborate with peers within an Agile and highly dynamic team environment
  • Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to keep services operational and highly available

Desired Skills:

  • Proficiency with at least one high level programming language such as Java, Golang, or Python
  • Experience with at least 1 public cloud platform such as AWS, GCP, or Alibaba
  • Knowledge of databases such as MySQL, AWS DynamoDB
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines
  • BS or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical degree
  • 5+ years of software development experience
  • Prior experience with Docker and container management frameworks such as Kubernetes (EKS, GKE) a strong plus
  • Prior experience with Cloud infrastructure automation tools such as Spinnaker, Terraform, Helm charts a strong plus
  • Development and operational experience with large scale, highly available distributed systems a strong plus
  • Ability to quickly learn and deliver high quality code in a fast-paced and dynamic team environment

Benefits & Perks
Check out our benefits site which explains our various benefits, including wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more.
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Top Skills

Alibaba
AWS
Aws Dynamodb
Docker
GCP
Go
Helm
Java
Kubernetes
MySQL
Python
Spinnaker
Terraform

Salesforce Burlington, Massachusetts, USA Office

5 Wall St, Burlington, MA, United States, 01803

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