Senior Software Engineer — Ruby, Redis & Scalable Systems

Filetwigbay; Lake Charles (LA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 137,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce in Lake Charles, LA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to shape the architecture of fault-tolerant systems and migrate legacy Salesforce components. You will collaborate across teams, prototype Redis approaches, and own critical technical decisions.

You bring at least 5 years of experience, comfort with full-time, hands-on work, and a track record of delivering reliable estimates. This role emphasizes teamwork, risk awareness, and impactful contributions to the tech stack.

Qualifications

• A collaborative mindset and enthusiasm for teamwork.
• Comfort steering technology conversations toward a decision.
• The reflex to surface risk before it surfaces itself.
• Comfort owning a number that goes up or down because of you.
• At least 5 years of standing behind your own estimates.
• Comfort with full-time arrangements and the rhythms of a hands-dirty workplace.

Responsibilities

• Watch Empathy error budgets and pump the brakes before Lake Charles, LA burns through them.
• Prototype rough Redis ideas fast, then decide which earn a place in Salesforce's stack.
• Lead the Strategic Planning migration that finally retires Salesforce's thoughtfully-bold legacy stack.
• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools.
• Translate fast-growing business requirements into technical specifications and tasks.
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Redis and Ruby.

Skills

Team collaboration

Decision making

Risk management

Numerical ownership

Tools

Redis

Ruby

Salesforce

Job description

Salesforce in Lake Charles, LA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to shape the architecture of fault-tolerant systems and migrate legacy Salesforce components. You will collaborate across teams, prototype Redis approaches, and own critical technical decisions.

You bring at least 5 years of experience, comfort with full-time, hands-on work, and a track record of delivering reliable estimates. This role emphasizes teamwork, risk awareness, and impactful contributions to the tech stack.