Golang Job: Senior Database Engineer

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Salesforce is the global leader in customer relationship management (CRM) software. We pioneered the shift to cloud computing, and today we're delivering the next generation of social, mobile and cloud technologies that help companies revolutionize the way they sell, service, market and innovate-and become customer companies. We are the fastest growing of the top 10 enterprise software companies, the World's Most Innovative Company according to Forbes and one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For.

The CRM Database Sustaining Engineering Team deploys and manages some of the largest and most trusted databases in the world. Our customers rely on us to keep their data safe and highly available.



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About the Position:

We are currently looking for multiple positions of Database engineers in Dublin, Ireland for our global team. The ideal candidate would be a cloud DevOps Engineer with a strong database background (Oracle & Postgres) and public cloud background (eg AWS, GCP) to work with a team that is responsible for architecting, developing, and testing the next generation of RDBMS. You will need familiarity with database internals, distributed systems, high availability, replication, scalability, and performance. You will be participating in Database Reliability responsibility for Salesforce databases infrastructure. You must have exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Key to this position will be a beginner's mindset, Learning & Can Do Attitude, a focus on technology excellence, and Reliability software development in a secure, high-performance, highly available (99.999%) and fully resilient infrastructure across multiple data centers.

The CRM Database Sustaining Engineering team is a fast-paced, dynamic, global team delivering and supporting databases & its cloud infrastructure to meet the substantial growth needs of the business. In this role, you will collaborate with other Application, Systems, Network, Database, Storage, and other infrastructure Engineering teams in delivering innovative solutions in an agile, dynamic environment. You will be part of the Global Team and engage in 24*7 support responsibility within Europe. Being part of a global team, you will need to occasionally be flexible in your working hours to be in sync globally. You will also be investing yourself into a Salesforce cloud database running on cutting-edge cloud technology & responsible for its reliability.



Job Requirements

• BS Degree in Computer Science.

• Experience with Oracle database is a must. Experience / exposure to Postgres is a huge advantage & highly desirable.

• At least 7+ years’ experience as an Oracle DBA. An exposure to Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle Data Guard, ASM, AWR etc . A deep exposure to Database Performance Tuning is highly desirable.

• A cloud certification (such as AWS / GCP cloud certification) is critical and highly desirable.

• Experience with related cloud technologies: Docker, Spinnaker, Terraform, Helm, Jenkins etc. Exposure to zookeeper fundamentals & Kubernetes is highly desirable.

• Expertise in Python or Java or C, or exposure to Golang and/or Maven is a plus.

• Ability to learn quickly and understand / deliver high quality code in a fast-paced, agile team environment.

• Experience with mission critical distributed systems service, including supporting Database Production Infrastructure with 24x7x365 On-Call responsibilities.

• Exposure to a fast pace environment with large-scale cloud infrastructure setup.

• A team player with great communication skills both verbal and written.

Desired Skills

• Experience with DevOps (CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, deployment to AWS).

• Exposure to Hadoop Filesystem, Apache Zookeeper/Bookkeeper is a plus.

• Knowledge of metrics & monitoring (e.g., Grafana, Splunk, Argus etc.)

• Experience in Infrastructure as Code / Automation is a plus.

• Should have worked in Agile methodology ie exposure to sprint planning, standups & scrum retros etc .

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