Salesforce

Big Data Platform – Distributed Systems, Senior/Lead/Principal

Salesforce

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California • Washington • United States

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Salary

💰 $148,500 - $313,700 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsETLGoogle Cloud PlatformHBaseJavaKafkaKubernetesPythonRustSpark

About the role

  • Build and own large-scale data pipelines and observability systems that power metrics, logging, and real-time insights across services.
  • Focus on designing reliable telemetry pipelines, improving monitoring and alerting, and ensuring data quality and system visibility at scale.
  • Own the compute infrastructure that powers large-scale Spark workloads.
  • Focus on optimizing core Spark performance, solving distributed systems challenges, and building scalable AI infrastructure, including exploring efficient ways to run smaller language models.

Requirements

  • Related technical degree required
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems design, including scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency trade-offs in large-scale data platforms
  • 7+ years of backend software development experience building large-scale distributed systems
  • Strong programming skills: Java (strongly preferred); Python or Rust are strong pluses
  • Experience designing and operating large-scale data pipelines, ETL workflows, or streaming data systems
  • Experience with big data and data platform technologies such as Spark, Flink, Kafka, Trino, HBase, or similar
  • Strong experience with public cloud platforms, especially AWS or GCP
  • Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
  • Experience operating data platforms or infrastructure services at enterprise scale
  • Experience owning and operating multiple instances of mission-critical services
  • Experience building or operating observability systems, telemetry pipelines, or monitoring platforms
  • Experience using metrics, logging, and telemetry to drive operational excellence
  • Experience with Agile development and Test Driven Development.
Benefits
  • wellbeing reimbursement
  • generous parental leave
  • adoption assistance
  • fertility benefits
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • mental health support
  • life and disability insurance
  • 401(k)
  • employee stock purchasing program
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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaPythonRustSparkFlinkKafkaTrinoHBaseKubernetesETL
Soft Skills
problem solvingoperational excellencescalabilityfault toleranceconsistency trade-offsmonitoringalertingdata qualitysystem visibilitycollaboration
Certifications
related technical degree