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Distributed Systems Software Engineer - Public Cloud (Senior/Lead/Principal)

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  • Software Engineering
    • California - San Francisco
    • Washington - Bellevue
  • Full time
  • JR249834
  • California Salary $137,100 - $323,400
  • Washington Salary $125,700 - $296,400

Description

Distributed Systems Software Engineer - Public Cloud (Senior/Lead/Principal)

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Our Public Cloud engineering teams are responsible for innovating and maintaining a large scale distributed systems engineering platform that ships hundreds of features to production for tens of millions of users across all industries every day. Our users count on our platform to be highly reliable, lightning fast, supremely secure, and to preserve all of their customizations and integrations every time we ship. You will need deep experience with concurrency, large scale systems, proficiency with solving real-world data management challenges, a strong understanding of how to craft solutions that are highly available, and a proven ability to design, develop, and optimize the core back-end systems.

Your Impact:

  • Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on our public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba

  • Designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers

  • Using and contributing to open source technology (Spinnaker, Zookeeper, etc.)

  • Developing Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform

  • Writing microservices on containerization frameworks such as Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos

  • Resolving complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance

  • Eat, sleep, and breathe services. You have experience balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt

  • Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to address complex problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available

Required Skills:

  • A related technical degree required

  • 4+ years backend software development experience

  • Deep knowledge of programming in Java, Golang, Python, or Ruby

  • Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a critical service

  • Experience with Agile development methodology and Test Driven Development

  • Experience with critical infrastructure services including, monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting applications

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

Salesforce Information
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