Software Engineering LMTS

Location: Canada - Toronto

Remote Type: Office Tech-Flexible

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

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Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

About Salesforce

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Lead Software Engineer, Transaction Processing, Distributed Systems 

Are you a database expert, or passionate about building database technologies that supports relentless growth and innovation?

We are looking for experienced Core Database Internal Engineers with a strong database internals and distributed systems background to work in a team responsible for architecting, developing and testing the next generation of RDBMS. You will join a team of world class, highly motivated software engineers and database experts.  You will design and develop robust and highly scalable software products to support the staggering growth of Salesforce.

You will need familiarity with database internals, distributed systems or networking, interest in system programming, exceptional software engineering skills, and relish the opportunity to work on very complex, highly concurrent, highly scalable and resilient systems. You must have a proven track record of success where you demonstrated end to end ownership of architecture, design, implementation, monitoring, testing, and product support on large mission critical systems at petabyte scale. 

Areas where you may be working on include logging/recovery, distributed lock management, replication, high availability, compression, cache management, encryption, scale out, monitoring, and serviceability.  

We work in a fast paced, highly collaborative, agile environment.  We are a hybrid team that values end to end service ownership, from conception to architecture, design to implementation, testing to deployment to customer engagement and service.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team to design and develop core database system functionalities.

• Come up with new architecture and design to solve complex scalability problems.

• Come up with innovative ideas to improve robustness and performance.

• Implement comprehensive functional and system-test for your area of responsibility and for overall database quality.

• Debug, conduct root cause analysis, diagnose defect.

• Actively participate in release and deployment process.

Qualifications:

• BS or higher degree in Computer Science.

• 6+ years industry experience in system or database internals programming.

• 6+ years technical leadership in architecture and design of enterprise server platform or systems.

• Deep expertise with distributed systems and consensus algorithms

• Experience with highly concurrent multi-threaded/multi-process data structures and design.

• Innovator with good ideas, strong problem solving and communication skills, and a results oriented attitude.

• Ability to learn quickly and deliver high quality code in a fast-paced, dynamic agile team environment.

• Strong Java or C programming skills.

Desired Skills:

• PostgreSQL software development experience and community involvement as a contributor would be a huge plus.
• Experience building a high-performance large-scale database platform.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.

For Ontario-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is CAD 154,700 to CAD 179,200 annually.

The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.

This posting is to fill a vacancy on our team, unless otherwise noted.