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Senior Engineer, Database Infrastructure - Slack Overview Join to apply for the Senior Engineer, Database Infrastructure - Slack role at Salesforce. About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce\'s core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place. Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. Our Team Slack\'s Datastores team builds and operates the database platform powering Slack. We write software to manage thousands of stateful hosts, providing several petabytes of online database capacity. We are building one of the fastest-growing database platforms in the world. Our MySQL databases run in Vitess. You can read more about our migration to Vitess. Role and Responsibilities Operate and enhance our large, highly-available database infrastructure, utilizing technologies such as MySQL and Vitess. Develop tools to enable self-service and self-managing capabilities of our database infrastructure so that other teams can operate full-stack while rapidly building new features for our customers. Collaborate with engineering teams on their database storage needs, and advise them throughout the development lifecycle. Write code to capture database performance, and create tools and dashboards to provide actionable insight into that data. Participate in our on-call rotation and collaborate with our operations team to triage and resolve production issues. Support FedRAMP and DoD SRG activities. What You May Be a Fit For Have a related technical degree. Have been working in data storage, core infrastructure, or distributed system-owning teams with increasing responsibilities for 5+ years. Have professional experience using Go, PHP/Hacklang, Python, Ruby, or Java. Write code that can be easily understood by others with an eye towards clarity and maintainability. Collaborate with other teams to integrate new features of your platform or adopt self-service features. Operate at least one distributed system, at scale and in a team environment. Examples include a relational database like MySQL/Postgres, or systems like Kafka, Cassandra, or ElasticSearch. Deploy server software on Linux, and then operate it at scale. You’ve debugged its problems, and analyzed and optimized its performance. Have experience operating cloud infrastructure, especially AWS. Are familiar with deployment automation/configuration management tools like Chef, Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet. Are a very strong communicator. You’re excited to explain complex technical concepts and share your knowledge with different audiences. Core Infrastructure is a diverse and inclusive team that treats their colleagues exceptionally well. We encourage and support each other’s growth and it’s not expected that you would have expertise across all of these areas. Perks, Diversity and Inclusion Come join us and unleash your potential. Salesforce offers a range of benefits to help you live well, including time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. Posting Statement: Salesforce is committed to equal opportunity and hires on merit. This policy applies to current and prospective employees and to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, and more. Location and Compensation San Francisco, CA — compensation ranges vary by role and location. For the role described, base salary ranges are provided by location and may include incentive compensation and benefits. #J-18808-Ljbffr Salesforce

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