Description
About Salesforce: -
Salesforce has immediate opportunities for software developers who want their lines of code to have significant and measurable positive impact for users, the company's bottom line, and the industry. You will be working with a group of world-class engineers to build the breakthrough features our customers will love, adopt, and use while keeping our trusted CRM platform stable and scalable. The software engineer role at Salesforce encompasses architecture, design, implementation, and testing to ensure we build products right and release them with high quality.
We pride ourselves on writing high quality, maintainable code that strengthens the stability of the product and makes our lives easier. We embrace the hybrid model and celebrate the individual strengths of each team member while cultivating everyone on the team to grow into the best version of themselves. We believe that autonomous teams with the freedom to make decisions will empower the individuals, the product, the company, and the customers they serve to thrive.
Software Engg - LMTS, Salesforce Database team
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.
About the Position:
The Database engineering team is based in the Bay Area, Toronto and India. The team has the DNA of building highly scalable, mission critical enterprise products. As part of building our team in India, we are looking for engineers and leaders who are passionate about working on the RDBMS technology of massive scale and one that thrives with continuous innovation.
We are looking for a Senior Database Kernel Development Engineer to design and develop features in the core database technology. Candidate must have strong database internals background to work with a team that is responsible for designing, developing and testing of a RDBMS. In this role, you will closely work with your lead Engineer on all aspects of Agile processes and work closely with scrum team on relational database development. You are responsible to develop complex features with the scalability and performance needed to match the staggering growth of our service.
As a Lead software engineer of the database development team, you will be responsible for:
* Drive the design and delivery of medium complex features independently
* Be an SME in your area of work and manage feature complexity with backlog planning, cross-team dependency planning and successful execution on the plan.
* Own the design decisions and ensure Quality and Security standards are met.
* Contribute to analysis, design, test and code reviews of own and related areas across different scrum teams
* Setting and improving engineering best practices/processes on relevant tooling, instrumentation, telemetry and playbook.
* Designing and coding the features for high quality.
* Timely resolution of Customer issues with utmost urgency and adhering to customer trust
Requirements:
* 8+ years in software development which includes experience in varying aspects of development cycle, including design, coding, testing and performance characterisation, and possessing 3+ years of direct database kernel development experience
* BE/BTech/MTech in computer science, or a related field
* Excellent communication skills and problem-solving skills
* Experience with highly-scalable and highly-available systems.
* Experienced with design and development of medium/high complex and high performance features
* Experience working with a group of developers in a high-pace high-demand environment
* Experience in Agile development
* Experience in SaaS development environment, cloud and container technologies is a plus.
* Experience in C or C++ server development. Working exposure in Java is preferred.
* Experience with relational database kernel development, demonstrated by working on critical areas of a successful commercial or an open source RDBMS
* Track record of delivering innovative and complex features for a major software system
BENEFITS & PERKS
* Comprehensive benefits package including well-being reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more!
* World-class enablement and on-demand training with Trailhead.com
* Exposure to executive thought leaders and regular 1:1 coaching with leadership
* Volunteer opportunities and participation in our 1:1:1 model for giving back to the community
* For more details, visit https://www.salesforcebenefits.com/
Why Join Us:
At Salesforce, we’re building the future of enterprise data and AI. You’ll join a world-class engineering team redefining how data is processed, analyzed, and activated at scale. Your work will directly power AI, personalization, and real-time intelligence across the Salesforce ecosystem, impacting millions of users and customers globally.
If you’re passionate about distributed systems, cutting-edge data technology, and solving complex problems at scale — we’d love to hear from you.