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Salesforce Search - Backend Software Engineer

Role Description:

The Search team has an immediate opportunity for an extremely talented Software Engineer who wants to build search features at a massive scale, including availability, security, and performance aspects. The team operates the largest enterprise search deployment in the world ( 4B search queries/week against 2.7 trillion records updated at a rate of 68B/day, and growing fast),

As an engineer on our team, you will collaborate with product managers, product designers, and other top-notch software engineers to design and implement highly innovative features. This job requires that you be a self-starter with the ability to deliver on time with quality and also handle multiple tasks simultaneously. You must possess good oral and written documentation skills and be able to interact with other team members to deliver fast with quality. You will also be asked to contribute ideas and provide feedback on many projects within the team's portfolio. Software development at Salesforce is a team sport, we play to win, we pay to win. Join us!

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, ship, and operate features that can scale to millions of users
• Build features with a major focus on performance, scalability, and future expansion
• Write unit and functional automation to validate code quality

Required skills

• BS or higher degree in Computer Science or equivalent/related degree. Ph.D. welcome.
• Expertise in Backend development like Java or any OOP languages.
• Strong understanding of RESTful web service APIs and relational databases.
• In-depth experience of design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and concurrency.
• Ability to learn quickly and deliver high-quality code in a fast-paced, dynamic team environment.
• Passion for learning and working with others to improve yourself, the team, the product, the company.
• Familiarity with Scrum/Agile project management methodologies.
• Proficient in English
  

Preferred qualifications

• Public cloud engineering on GCP, AWS, Alibaba and/or Azure platforms.
• Experience with search platforms such as Lucene, Solr, or ElasticSearch.
• Experience building Software as a Service (SaaS) applications.

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