
Database Engineer, Government Cloud
Salesforce
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: San Francisco • California • Colorado • United States
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Salary
💰 $117,200 - $176,700 per year
About the role
- 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
- 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
- time off programs
- medical
- dental
- vision
- mental health support
- paid parental leave
- life and disability insurance
- 401(k)
- employee stock purchasing program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
database engineeringAWSDockerKubernetesEKSGKELinuxShell scriptingPythonGolang
Soft Skills
innovative thinkingproblem-solvingcollaborationcommunicationaccountabilityresponsibilityfeedback provisionincident managementroot cause analysispredictive analysis