Lead Embedded & Distributed Systems Engineer (Hybrid)

salesforce.com, inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 172,500 - 260,100; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to design and build scalable distributed file system components for a cloud-based SaaS platform used by millions. You will write production-ready code, participate in architecture decisions, and guide a scrum team through design reviews and mentoring.

You will lead efforts to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability, with on-call rotations and cross-functional collaboration to deliver strategic roadmaps.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software development experience.
• Deep knowledge of designing distributed file systems (on-premises and cloud).
• Proficiency in Java and Python with SQL and both relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience developing SaaS products on public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Experience designing distributed systems at scale with queues, locks, scheduling, event-driven architecture, and workload distribution.
• Understanding of software development best practices and ability to demonstrate leadership.

Responsibilities

• Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialized utilities; update or enhance existing software capabilities.
• Contribute to the Scrum team through code reviews, deployment automation, documentation, refinement, planning, and retrospectives.
• Lead, collaborate, communicate, and mentor others on the team and in the company.
• Work with cross-functional teams to deliver a roadmap aligned with shared business goals.
• Resolve complex technical issues and drive innovations to improve scalability, robustness, and availability.
• Troubleshoot issues with services the team develops and owns.
• Participate in on-call rotations to keep services operational and highly available.
• Create, maintain, and share technical documentation used by engineers and other team members.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Java

Python

SQL

Cloud SaaS

Leadership

Code reviews

On-call support

Mentoring

Performance optimization

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to design and build scalable distributed file system components for a cloud-based SaaS platform used by millions. You will write production-ready code, participate in architecture decisions, and guide a scrum team through design reviews and mentoring.

You will lead efforts to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability, with on-call rotations and cross-functional collaboration to deliver strategic roadmaps.