Posted almost 5 years ago

In the future, we see a better world. And the changemakers creating that better world should have the tools and technology to make this happen. Technology is the most powerful equalizer of our time, providing access to data, knowledge, and--above all--connections. Salesforce.org gets our technology in the hands of nonprofits, educational institutions, and philanthropic organizations so they can connect with others and do more good. As a social enterprise, the more missions our technology supports, the more we invest back into technology and communities, creating an endless circle of good. We're here to help; visit us at Salesforce.org.

Job CategorySalesforce.org - Products and Technology

Job Details

Everyone who wants to change the world should have the tools and technology to do so. Technology is the most powerful equalizer of our time, providing access to data, knowledge, and--above all--connections. Salesforce.org gets our technology in the hands of nonprofits and educators so they can connect with others and do more good. As a social enterprise, the more missions our technology supports, the more we invest back into technology and communities, creating an endless circle of good. We're here to help; visit us at Salesforce.org.

We are looking for a Python developer to join our Product Delivery Release Engineering team. Our team maintains a suite of open source tooling that streamlines the Salesforce development and delivery experience for both Salesforce.org's Product Delivery team and the broader community of Salesforce partners and customers. Our tooling enables weekly release operations at scale that deliver new software to the tens of thousands of nonprofit and education organizations using Salesforce to maximize their impact in the world. Our engineers leverage the best of the Python ecosystem and the cutting edge of the Salesforce platform to enable scalable deployments and development across the Force.com platform technology stack.You can learn more about our tooling from their Github repositories:

+ https://github.com/SFDO-Tooling/CumulusCI

+ https://github.com/SFDO-Tooling/MetaCI

+ https://github.com/SFDO-Tooling/MetaDeploy

Primary responsibilities:

+ Participate in the ongoing development of our Python based command line and web (Django) tooling

+ Conduct code reviews to ensure the quality and architectural integrity of our tooling projects

+ Support our release engineers and other internal teams in using our tooling to maximize the scalability and reliability of our product delivery and enablement

+ Help grow the open source communities around our products through active participation in our open source Github repositories

+ Provide expertise across the product teams on tooling, including SalesforceDX, CumulusCI and MetaCI

Secondary responsibilities:

+ Provide expertise and knowledge around packaging and distribution of Salesforce products

+ Help maintain internal and public facing documentation for release engineering tooling

+ Support and help grow the community of open source contributors building extensions of Salesforce.org's products

Required Skills

+ 3-5 years experience with object oriented Python development including experience with web frameworks such as Django

+ 1-3 years experience with Javascript frameworks such as ReactJS

+ In-depth knowledge and experience with designing and implementing devOps concepts such as continuous integration, automated testing, and scalable delivery

+ Experience running web applications on container-based cloud infrastructure such as Heroku

+ Proven ability to learn complex enterprise systems and environments such as Salesforce

+ A passion for applying your skills to improve the world by empowering nonprofit or education organizations to increase their impact through effective use of the best technology available

Desired Skills

+ History of involvement in open source projects

+ Knowledge of Salesforce development and tooling such as Salesforce DX

+ Familiarity with the organizational needs of nonprofit or education organizations

+ Familiarity and experience with Salesforce.org products such as NPSP and HEDA

+ Experience with Salesforce.org's tooling: CumulusCI and MetaCI

+ Experience with Selenium or testing frameworks such as Robot Framework

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