Big Data Platform & Distributed Systems (Mid/Senior/Lead/Principal)

Salesforce

Remote Actively hiring
Bellevue, WA Posted 11 days ago $117,200–$313,700 / year
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TL;DR

Join our mission-critical teams at the heart of Salesforce’s data strategy, where you will design and own large-scale data pipelines and observability systems that power real-time insights across services. As a senior software engineer in either the Data Engineering & Observability or Big Data Compute platform team, you will focus on improving monitoring and alerting, optimizing Spark performance, and building scalable AI infrastructure. Ideal candidates possess strong distributed systems fundamentals, experience with backend development (Java preferred), and expertise in big data technologies such as Spark, Flink, Kafka, Trino, and HBase. You will work at extreme scale using Public Cloud (AWS/GCP) and Kubernetes to drive operational excellence through metrics, logging, and telemetry, ensuring high-throughput data platforms operate seamlessly in cloud or hybrid environments.

Skills

AWS Kubernetes Spark Flink Kafka Trino HBase Java Docker CI/CD Prometheus Grafana Terraform PostgreSQL Bigtable Spanner

What you'll do

  • Design and own large-scale data pipelines and observability systems.
  • Improve monitoring and alerting to ensure system visibility at scale.
  • Optimize core Spark performance for large-scale workloads.
  • Solve distributed systems challenges in cloud or hybrid environments.
  • Build scalable AI infrastructure, including efficient language model execution.
  • Ensure reliability of telemetry pipelines and data quality across services.

What we're looking for

  • Strong understanding of distributed systems design and large-scale data platforms.
  • Experience designing and operating large-scale data pipelines and ETL workflows.
  • Proficiency with big data technologies such as Spark, Flink, Kafka, Trino, HBase.
  • Expertise in building or operating observability systems and monitoring platforms.
  • Background in optimizing core Spark performance and scalable AI infrastructure.

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About Salesforce

Salesforce is the world''s leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform, offering cloud-based software for sales, service, marketing, analytics, and application development. Industry: Enterprise Software & Cloud Computing

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