Software Engineering SMTS

Software Engineering SMTS

Requirements

• Experience and passion for service ownership, building reliable/self-healing services.
• Experience working in a complex, geographically diverse team environment. Able to deliver under pressure and dependency constraints.
• Experience building large scale distributed systems, especially in cloud environments.
• Familiar with Hyperforce technologies/deployments.
• Good knowledge with network technologies, such as TCP/IP, DNS, TLS termination, HTTP proxies, etc.
• Familiarity with crash-only and recovery-oriented software design.
• Excited by building reliable, self-healing microservices on unreliable hardware.
• Experience designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers.
• Capable of driving and delivering thin slices of end-to-end functionality on a regular cadence with data-driven feedback loops.

Responsibilities

• Building a highly scalable and distributed load balancing and gateway service to front all customer traffic coming into Salesforce.
• Providing simple declarative interfaces for L4/L7 load balancing, TLS termination, end-to-end encryption, along with support for richer traffic policies such as blue/green deployments, access control, etc.
• Enhancing the capabilities of the OSS software and contributing back to the community.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experienced backend software developer with 6+ years of development experience
• Proficiency in Golang, Java, Python, and/or C++ in a Linux/UNIX environment
• Experience operating large scale cluster management systems (e.g., Kubernetes) for mission-critical services
• Experience with Helm charts, Spinnaker
• Familiarity with Agile development methodology and Test-Driven Development
• Experience using telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellence
• Experience with Envoy/Istio is a huge plus.