Principal Software Engineer

at  Salesforce

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Job Category
Software Engineering
Job Details

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Over 10+ years of experience of Java or other comparable Object Oriented Programming Language
• Strong SQL experience on any relational database system in production.
• Expert in performance optimization, scalability and algorithms
• Ability to learn quickly and deliver high quality code in a dynamic team environment
• Ability to quickly respond to the changing business needs and roll out functionality in small increments rather than a big bang approach
• Ability to communicate well, present ideas and solution and coherently discuss complex topics with the team and broader technical audience.Expertise in Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis.

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Strong understanding of database design, SQL optimizations and SQL tuning of relational databases
• Experience building Software as a Service (Saas) applications.
• Experience with Agile software development and Test Driven Development methodologies
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RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Help design, develop, bring to production at a large scale and support new features on a world-class service that serves billions of requests daily on a diverse corpus of data against a relational database.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
• Help design and operationalize usage metrics and patterns to identify opportunities to improve, and to create visibility.
• Contribute to the analysis of functional requirements
• Implement and support tools to simplify debugging of performance issues in productionInvestigate production problems to help solve for customer problems