Database Systems Development - Senior/Lead/Principal Member Technical Staff

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About the Position:

The Database engineering team is based in the Bay Area, Toronto and India. The team has the DNA of building highly scalable, distributed and mission critical enterprise products. As part of building our team in India, we are looking for engineers and leaders who are passionate about working on the  RDBMS technology of massive scale and one that thrives with continuous innovation. 

We are looking for experienced Core Database Internal Engineers with a strong database internals and distributed systems background to work in a team responsible for architecting, developing and testing the next generation of cloud native database. You will join a team of world class, highly motivated software engineers and database experts.  You will design and develop robust and highly scalable software products to support the staggering growth of Salesforce.

You will need familiarity with database internals, distributed systems or networking, interest in system programming, exceptional software engineering skills, and relish the opportunity to work on very complex, highly concurrent, highly scalable and resilient systems. You must have a proven track record of success where you demonstrated end to end ownership of architecture, design, implementation, monitoring, testing, and product support on large mission critical systems at petabyte scale.

As a senior/lead software engineer of the database development team, you will be responsible to:

• Design and develop core distributed database system functionalities.

• Come up with new architecture and design to solve complex scalability problems.

• Implement comprehensive functional and system-test for your area of responsibility and for overall database quality.

• Interact with broader database team to help integrate the projects/features and collaborate tightly on code, design and test strategy reviews

• Architecting, designing and coding the features for high quality

• Owning, debugging and resolving Customer issues with utmost urgency and adhering to customer trust

• Drive cross team collaborative work environment with other Scrum teams and engineering managers that fosters autonomy, innovation, learning, respect and transparency while holding a high bar for delivery

Requirements:

• 13+ years in software development which includes experience in varying aspects of development  cycle, including design, coding, testing and performance characterisation, and possessing 4+ years of direct database kernel development experience

• BE/BTech/MTech in computer science, or a related field with strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems

• Experienced senior developer responsible to build complex and high performance cloud native features

• Experience working with a group of developers in a high-pace high-demand environment

• Experience in Agile development

• Experience in C or C++ server development. Working exposure in Java is preferred.

• Experience with relational database kernel development, demonstrated by working on critical areas of a  successful commercial or an open source RDBMS

• Track record of delivering innovative and Release-defining features for a major software system

• Excellent communication skills and problem-solving skills

• Experience with highly-scalable and highly-available distributed systems.

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