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Are you a database expert, or passionate about building database technologies that supports relentless growth and innovation?

We are looking for an experienced Database Internals Engineer with a strong database internals, system programming background and scripting skills to work in a team responsible for architecting, developing and testing the next generation of RDBMS. You will join a team of world class, highly motivated software engineers and database experts. You will design and develop robust and highly scalable software products to support the staggering growth of Salesforce.

You will need familiarity database internals, interest in system programming, exceptional software engineering skills, and relish the opportunity to work on very complex, highly concurrent, distributed systems. Familiarity with scripting languages such as python is useful. You must have a proven track record of success where you demonstrated end to end ownership of architecture, design, implementation, testing, and product support.

Areas where you may be working on include database upgrade, database catalogs, database schema, monitoring, serviceability, query execution and optimization. We work in a fast paced, highly collaborative, agile environment. We are a hybrid team that values end to end service ownership, from conception to architecture, design to implementation, testing to deployment to customer engagement and service.

Responsibilities:

Lead, design, develop and expand core database system functionality.
Come up with innovative ideas to improve performance and scalability.
Implement comprehensive functional and system-test for your area of responsibility and for overall database quality.
Debug, conduct root cause analysis, diagnose defects.
Actively participate in release and deployment process.
Qualifications:

BS, MS in Computer Science.
Knowledge of Database Internals
Experience with scripting languages, such as Python, bash etc in Linux environment
Jenkins (or other CI framework) administration and configuration experience.
Deep expertise in software development and quality engineering.
Innovator with good ideas, strong problem solving and communication skills, and a results oriented attitude.
Ability to learn quickly and deliver high quality code in a fast-paced, dynamic agile team environment.
Desired Skills:

Strong C programming skills
Experience with database catalog, upgrade, query execution, query optimization.
PostgreSQL software development experience and community involvement as a contributor would be a huge plus.
Experience building a high-performance large-scale database platform.
 

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