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Distributed Systems Software Engineer - Public Cloud (Senior/Lead)

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Distributed Systems Software Engineer - Public Cloud (Senior/Lead)

Vancouver, Canada

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Software Engineering

Job Details

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We are seeking a software developer for our Public Cloud engineering team to make a significant impact by innovating and maintaining a large-scale distributed systems engineering platform that ships hundreds of features daily to tens of millions of users. You will join world-class engineers to design, implement, and test solutions ensuring our platform remains highly reliable, lightning fast, supremely secure, and preserves all customizations and integrations every we ship. You should be able to thrive in highly collaborative environment and have a proven ability to drive toward highly available and optimized data management services for our customers.

Your Impact:

  • Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on our public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba
  • Designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers
  • Using and contributing to open source technology (Spinnaker, Zookeeper, etc.)
  • Developing Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform
  • Resolving complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance
  • Eat, sleep, and breathe services. You have experience balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt
  • Participate in the team's on-call rotation to address complex problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available

Required Skills:

  • 5+ years backend software development experience
  • Deep knowledge of programming in Java, Golang, or Python
  • Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a critical service
  • Experience with real-time data streaming pipelines using Apache Kafka, focusing on high-volume, low-latency systems and ensuring data flow efficiency and system stability.
  • Experience with critical infrastructure services running on public cloud platforms including, monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting applications

Benefits & Perks

Check out our benefits site which explains our various benefits, including wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more.

Benefits & Perks
Check out our benefits site which explains our various benefits, including wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more.

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For British Columbia-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is CAD 130,300 to CAD 212,800.

Client-provided location(s): Vancouver, BC, Canada
Job ID: Salesforce-JR298412
Employment Type: Full Time

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Health Reimbursement Account
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA
    • FSA With Employer Contribution
    • HSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Fitness Subsidies
    • On-Site Gym
    • Mental Health Benefits
  • Parental Benefits

    • Adoption Leave
    • Return-to-Work Program
    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Casual Dress
    • Happy Hours
    • Snacks
    • Some Meals Provided
    • Company Outings
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Unlimited Paid Time Off
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Leave of Absence
    • Sabbatical
    • Volunteer Time Off
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K)
    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Company Equity
    • Stock Purchase Program
    • Performance Bonus
    • Relocation Assistance
    • Financial Counseling
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Learning and Development Stipend
    • Promote From Within
    • Mentor Program
    • Shadowing Opportunities
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Lunch and Learns
    • Internship Program
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Professional Coaching
    • Work Visa Sponsorship
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
    • Unconscious Bias Training
    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program

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