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Senior Software Engineering - Backend Distributed Systems (LMTS/SMTS)

Global leader in CRM software and enterprise cloud computing solutions.
$157,600 - $276,100
Backend
Senior Software Engineer
In-Person
5,000+ Employees
4+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS · Cybersecurity

Description For Senior Software Engineering - Backend Distributed Systems (LMTS/SMTS)

Join Salesforce's Security Software Engineering team, where we build and operate highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems to deliver cloud-scale security software services. Our Security Log Platform - Data Plane team processes up to 6 million events per second, providing critical security infrastructure across Salesforce's ecosystem. We're focused on building a world-class security log data ingestion, extraction, transformation, aggregation, and load platform that's self-service, elastic, agile, and resilient.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll work with cutting-edge technologies including Spark on Kubernetes, EMR, S3/SQS, Iceberg, and DeltaLake. You'll have the unique opportunity to learn from industry-leading security experts while developing software that protects Salesforce's products and infrastructure from malicious attacks. The role combines technical growth in both distributed systems development and application security vulnerabilities, while operating on a large-scale cloud platform.

You'll be part of a team that values engineering excellence, mentorship, and maintaining Trust as Salesforce's #1 core value. The position offers exposure to both security and big data processing, handling massive scale with up to 6 million events per second. This is an excellent opportunity for ambitious engineers who want to make a significant impact on enterprise security while working with modern cloud technologies and distributed systems.

Working at Salesforce means joining a company that's revolutionizing the enterprise software space, with a strong focus on security and customer trust. You'll collaborate with talented engineers, participate in design reviews, and help shape the future of security infrastructure at one of the world's leading cloud companies.

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Responsibilities For Senior Software Engineering - Backend Distributed Systems (LMTS/SMTS)

  • Architect and implement ETL platforms with open-source technologies
  • Advance and operate the ETL platforms in a full DevOps model
  • Operate in an Agile development environment, including participating in daily scrums
  • Support the team's engineering excellence by performing design reviews, code reviews and mentoring junior team members
  • Provide on-call support

Requirements For Senior Software Engineering - Backend Distributed Systems (LMTS/SMTS)

Java
Python
Kubernetes
  • B.A/B.Sc. in Computer Science/Engineering with 4+ years of industry experience
  • Extensive experience building large scale distributed systems using cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc..)
  • Deep understanding of object oriented programming and experience with at least one object oriented programming language (Java, Python)
  • Experience with Big Data platforms such as Apache Spark, EMR, EKS, Flink
  • Experience building services with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Experience with Scrum or other agile development methodologies
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with outstanding attention to detail
  • Have a passion for working together as a team and ensuring team members' success

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