Database Engineer, Government Cloud

Salesforce

Database Engineer maintaining services and applications for Salesforce's customers while improving performance and reliability. Join the team to innovate in database technology and infrastructure management.

Posted 4/10/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Virginia, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-Level💰 $117,200 - $176,700 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDockerElasticSearchGoKubernetesLinuxLogstashNoSQLPythonSplunk

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Come up with innovative ideas to improve performance, scalability and resilience in a large-scale platform
Implement comprehensive functional and system-test for your area of responsibility and for overall database quality
Debug, conduct root cause analysis, diagnose defects
Actively participate in database automation and feature enhancement on premise and in Public cloud platform.
Responsibility and accountability for the availability and reliability of all Production Databases.
Working with other Engineering teams to triage issues.
Define, develop and deploy system monitoring requirements/thresholds as well as corrective actions.
Improve the system reliability via predictive analysis.
Collaborate with and provide detailed feedback to stakeholders on resiliency initiatives.
To Participate in production Incident Management / Escalation Management call and be able to drive the incident to resolution.
Provides technical and platform support to multiple customers and stakeholders that use the production systems.

Requirements

What you’ll need

2+ years of experience deploying distributed applications using containers (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, EKS, GKE)
2+ years of hands-on AWS experience, including building and operating production-grade infrastructure
2+ years of database engineering experience (relational, NoSQL, or both)
2+ years of Linux system engineering experience
2+ years of scripting or programming experience in Shell, Python, and/or Golang
Practical experience using AI tools — such as AI coding assistants or generative AI — to speed up development, automate workflows, or improve infrastructure quality
Experience with log management and analytics platforms such as Splunk or the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
Willing and ready to participate in a 24/7 on call rotation.

Benefits

Comp & perks

time off programs
medical
dental
vision
mental health support
paid parental leave
life and disability insurance
401(k)
employee stock purchasing program

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Hard Skills & Tools

database engineeringAWSDockerKubernetesEKSGKELinuxShell scriptingPythonGolang

Soft Skills

innovative thinkingproblem-solvingcollaborationcommunicationaccountabilityresponsibilityfeedback provisionincident managementroot cause analysispredictive analysis