Salesforce

Database Engineer, Government Cloud

Salesforce

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaColoradoUnited 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
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Hard Skills & Tools
database engineeringAWSDockerKubernetesEKSGKELinuxShell scriptingPythonGolang
Soft Skills
innovative thinkingproblem-solvingcollaborationcommunicationaccountabilityresponsibilityfeedback provisionincident managementroot cause analysispredictive analysis