Database Engineer

Salesforce

full-time

Posted on: 10/22/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $157,600 - $216,700 per year

Mid-LevelSenior

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaJenkinsKubernetesMySQLOraclePostgresPythonSpinnakerSQLTerraformZookeeper

About the role

Play a mission-critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of Salesforce's vast cloud database infrastructure.
Help power the backbone of one of the largest SaaS platforms in the world.
Bring a DevOps mindset and deep database expertise to architect and operate resilient, secure, and performant database environments across public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP).
Collaborate across systems, storage, networking, and applications to deliver cloud-native reliability solutions at massive scale.
Engage in 24*7 support responsibility within Europe.

Bachelors in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience.
A minimum of 5+ years of experience as a Database Engineer, or similar role is required.
Expertise in Database and SQL performance tuning in one of the relational database.
Knowledge and hands on experience with Postgres database is a plus
Broad and deep knowledge of at least 2 relational databases, including Oracle, PostgreSQL & MySQL.
Working knowledge of cloud platforms (such as AWS or GCP) is highly desirable and considered a strong asset.
Experience with related cloud technologies: Docker, Spinnaker, Terraform, Helm, Jenkins, GIT, etc.
Exposure to zookeeper fundamentals & Kubernetes is highly desirable.
Working knowledge of SQL and at least one procedural language such as Python, Go, or Java, along with a basic understanding of C.
A solid understanding of coding is highly preferred.
Excellent problem-solving skills and Experienced with Production Incident Management / Root Cause analysis.
Experience with mission critical distributed systems service, including supporting Database Production Infrastructure with 24x7x365 support responsibilities.
Exposure to a fast pace environment with a large scale cloud infrastructure setup.
Excellent speaking-listening-writing skills, attention to detail, proactive self-starter.

Benefits

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Database EngineeringSQL performance tuningPostgresOracleMySQLDockerSpinnakerTerraformHelmJenkins

problem-solvingattention to detailcommunicationproactive self-starterproduction incident managementroot cause analysis

Bachelor's in Computer ScienceBachelor's in Engineering