Lead Software Engineer - Heroku Integration (Hyderabad)

About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

About Heroku

Heroku operates the world’s largest PaaS cloud, continuously delivering millions of apps with 6+ million container deployments, 16+ billion routing requests, and 10+ terabytes of application logs per day. Our vision is for developers to focus on their applications and leave operations to us. We work in small groups who are heartfelt about our users’ problems. We plan weekly, chat daily, and work closely together. Our team is a globally distributed remote community with members excited to work together on challenging distributed systems problems.

About the Job

The Heroku Integration team focuses on building seamless connection points between the Salesforce platform and customers' applications on Heroku. Our mission is to enhance the capabilities of Salesforce by leveraging the elastic compute services and scalable data solutions provided by Heroku. Our work ensures that customers can seamlessly extend their Salesforce functionality, harnessing the power and flexibility of Heroku's cloud-based infrastructure. As a member of this team, you will help build the connection points that allow our customers to fully leverage their Heroku apps and databases.

Basic Requirements

• 9+ years in a full-time, professional software engineering role
• Experience developing production software in Ruby
• Experience writing SQL queries including complex JOIN statements
• Experiencing maintaining and enhancing RESTful APIs
• Experience deploying, operating and supporting critical production systems
• Enthusiasm for learning new languages, frameworks, and skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with geographically distributed teams and people of various backgrounds

Desired Skills

• Maintaining and operating a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
• Maintaining and operating a distributed system operating at thousands of requests per second
• Experience debugging HTTP request-response cycles in a distributed system
• Tuning SQL queries for performance
• Experience with PostgreSQL
• Experience deploying and operating services on Heroku
• Writing queries in Splunk