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Salesforce: Software Engineer, Database Internals

Position Type: Full-time
Prefered Start Date: As soon as possible (Spring 2024, Dec 2024 grads should apply)

Job Description

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 or system programming 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, interest in system programming, exceptional software engineering skills, and relish the opportunity to work on very complex, highly concurrent, distributed systems. You must have a proven track record of success where you demonstrated end to end ownership of architecture, design, implementation, testing, and product support.

Areas where you may be working on include query execution, query optimization, system catalog, database schema, upgrade, 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.

The Program:
Our future success depends on hiring world-class, early-in-career talent who are looking to power next-generation services and solutions. We are hiring bachelor’s and master’s graduates with a diverse set of skills and experiences to work in and across multiple teams within the Database Technologies organization. Our program is intended to enhance your overall learning experience, help build your network, and accelerate your opportunity to make an impact.

The Team:
The Oracle Database and Systems Technologies organization creates data management technologies that power the modern economy. This includes the Oracle Database, the most widely used mission-critical database in all major industries around the world. We use this foundation to develop Database Services in Public and Private Clouds, and the Oracle Autonomous Database, the world’s first self-driving, self-securing, self-repairing mission-critical cloud database service. The organization also engineers hardware systems specialized for databases that are used by over 75% of the largest businesses in the world. In this team, the code that you write will power highly critical systems used by billions of people including travel reservations, telecommunications, hospitals, payroll, insurance, banking, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, e-commerce, utilities, and government services. The goal of our products is to increase the possibilities and productivity of businesses and people worldwide. Over 30% of the largest businesses in the world are already using our database cloud technologies.
Career Level - IC2

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop and expand core database system functionality.
  • Come up with innovative ideas to improve performance and scalability.
  • Implement comprehensive functional and system-test for your area of responsibility and for overall database quality.
  • Debug, conduct root cause analysis, diagnose defects.
  • Actively participate in release and deployment process.

Qualifications

  • BS or higher degree in Computer Science.
  • Industry experience in system or database internals programming.
  • Expertise in software development and quality engineering.
  • 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 C / C++ / Java programming skills.

Desired Skills

  • Experience with database catalog, upgrade, query execution, query optimization.
  • PostgreSQL software development experience and community involvement as a contributor would be a huge plus.
  • Experience building a high-performance large-scale database platform.

Employer Description

Salesforce, the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM, empowers companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way. The company was founded on three disruptive ideas: a new technology model in cloud computing, a pay-as-you-go business model, and a new integrated corporate philanthropy model. These founding principles have taken our company to great heights, including being named one of Forbes’s “World’s Most Innovative Company” five years in a row and one of Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” eight years in a row. We are the fastest growing of the top 10 enterprise software companies, and this level of growth equals incredible opportunities to grow a career at Salesforce. Together, with our whole Ohana (Hawaiian for "family") made up of our employees, customers, partners and communities, we are working to improve the state of the world.

 

How to Apply

Please contact Andrew Sokolnikov, Director, Engineering @ Salesforce SDB with your CV.