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Posted almost 5 years ago


Salesforce's software engineers develop the next generation platform that power ever growing Salesforce cloud services. Salesforce’s Core Platform provides highly-scalable and reliable platform supporting billions of transactions a day for customers developing, customizing and deploying our world’s #1 CRM, Sales, Marketing, Commerce, Industries and other SaaS solutions. At Salesforce, we strive everyday to earn customer trust by making our cloud always fast, always secure (see http://trust.salesforce.com).

App Runtime team is seeking talented and experienced software engineer to design, develop and deliver core runtime technologies that power Salesforce architecture; improve site latencies, scalability and overall customer experience across our multitenant services. All our services are designed to be continuously delivered, delivered at scale, updated with zero downtime, in a rapidly evolving modern architecture.

An ideal candidate is an experienced developer that has proven expertise in server-side Java container internals, application server performance, understanding of design patterns, scalable data structures, web technologies, and caching strategies. Having a track record building solutions to solve performance and scalability challenges in large scale distributed system is a big plus. The features you design and develop will be deployed across the entire Salesforce.com site which handles billions of requests per day where quality solutions are critical.

Responsibilities
  • Deliver the most secure and performant runtime technologies, viz., Jetty web container, HTTP/2 server, Spring IOC container, Java/OpenJDK, thread management, and low latency class loaders.
  • Formulate, evaluate and implement techniques to support service stability, scalability, resiliency and availability. Maximize robustness with fast startup and graceful shutdown (disposability).
  • Deliver elastically scalable services for deployment to multi-substrate cloud platforms (Docker/Kubernetes-based micro service architecture) include Salesforce own internal IaaS, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform.
  • Work across the engineering organization to resolve complex technical issues and drive impactful innovation that improves application lifecycle, async handling, system availability, resiliency, and performance.
  • Provide thought leadership for the open source technologies inside Salesforce and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to develop and enhance the platform.
Qualifications
  • BS/MS or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • Sound computer science concepts in the area of algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, operations systems, design patterns, caching, and databases.
  • 5+ years hands on Java development experience in the related areas - viz., Java frameworks (NIO, Concurrency, Collections, Lambdas and runtime GC and dynamic compilers)
  • Familiarity with the internals of open source application platforms such as Jetty/Netty, JBoss/Tomcat/Glassfish, Servlets/JSP technology, Spring framework, Redis, web services stacks, JMX, Monitoring; Direct experience in building or extending an application server is a huge plus.
  • Optimization of Java based applications, application servers, knowledge of performance patterns and full stack performance profiling and analysis.
  • Strong understanding of Linux, internet/mobile principles, protocols and implementation, understanding of performance analysis, reporting and presentation.
  • Sound knowledge of TCP, HTTP, Servlet specifications.
Desired Skills
  • Ability to learn quickly and deliver high quality code in a fast-paced, dynamic team environment.
  • Ability to analyze complex systems and failure modes and build technical strategies for improvements based on those findings.
  • Solid analytical and troubleshooting skills, outstanding attention to detail and communication skills.
  • Experience with production deployment performance in mission critical environment.
  • Experience building observability tools to analyze real-time/historical system behavior.
  • Experience with Java runtime and memory profilers (JMH/MAT/JMC/perf).
  • Experience with performance log analysis tools like Splunk, NewRelic, AppDynamics.
  • Exposure to cloud design considerations in the areas of virtualization, service discovery, load balancing, networking and security.
  • Ability to work well within the team and also consult with influence across teams
  • Experience with agile software development, and short release cycles.
  • Experience working with open source projects and tools and contributing features back to the community

Posting Statement

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