Lead Backend Engineer for Scalable Cloud Filesystems

Own Company

San Francisco (CA)

Hybrid

USD 210,000 - 280,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in San Francisco to envision and build new components for distributed filesystems on our cloud platform. You will lead design, code reviews, and mentoring while delivering scalable, production-ready software used by millions.

You will work in a hybrid model, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive architecture decisions that improve scalability, robustness, and availability across services.

Qualifications

8+ years of software development experience with systems design mastery.
Experience designing distributed filesystems (on-prem & cloud).
Java & Python with strong SQL and DB knowledge (Postgres/Trino).
Experience building SaaS on public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP).
Proven experience designing distributed systems at scale with queues and scheduling.
Strong leadership and software development best practices.

Responsibilities

Research, design, and develop software and update capabilities.
Contribute to scrum team through code reviews and automation.
Lead and mentor team members.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver roadmap.
Resolve complex issues to improve scalability, robustness, availability.
Troubleshoot services and participate in on-call rotation.
Create and share technical documentation.

Skills

Systems design

Distributed filesystems

Java

Python

SQL

Leadership

Tools

Kafka

ElasticSearch

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

You will work in a hybrid model, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive architecture decisions that improve scalability, robustness, and availability across services.

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