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Director, Database Engine Development
Salesforce
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Are you a database expert, or passionate about building database technology that supports relentless growth and innovation? Do you take pride in delivering high quality mission critical enterprise products? Join the team that is building the database of the cloud. We are looking for an experienced manager to lead the core database engine development team at Salesforce.
Candidate must have strong database internals or system programming background to work with a team that is responsible for architecting, developing and testing the next generation of RDBMS. You will lead and grow a team of world class, highly motivated software engineers and database experts. Your team will need to deliver highly complex products with the scalability and performance needed to match the staggering growth of our service.
You will need familiarity with database internals, distributed systems, high availability, replication, scalability and performance. You must have exceptional verbal and written communication skills, and have a track record of hiring top performers and building a highly collaborative team to deliver successful enterprise products.
Responsibilities:
• Recruiting top talents.
• Develop and grow talent in the team.
• Motivate and align team members with business and project goals.
• Be the scrum master and project manager, help team organize and prioritize.
• Work with CTO and Product Owners to define deliverables, priority and staffing needs.
• Develop roadmap and milestones and help team execute to plan.
• Constantly improving culture, communications, and process.
• Take initiative to challenge and improve status quo.
• Establish mature development, quality assurance, release, and deployment process.
Qualifications:
• BS or higher degree in Computer Science.
• 10+ years hands on individual contributor in system or database internals programming.
• 5+ years management experience of at least 10 engineers working on a customer facing enterprise product.
• Technical expertise with distributed systems, database replication, transaction management, high availability, highly concurrent and scalable enterprise products.
• Experience recruiting senior and junior engineers.
• Proven track record of delivering and supporting large scale enterprise products and services.
• Lead a team from initial team formation, product definition, development, deployment, go live and service ownership.
• Deep expertise in software development and quality engineering.
• Innovator with good ideas, strong problem solving and communication skills, and a results oriented attitude.
• Ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced, dynamic agile team environment.
Desired Skills:
• Service owner for successful enterprise product.
• Experience with PostgreSQL.
• Experience building a high-performance large-scale database platform.
• Experience with resolving customer issues.
About Salesforce:
Salesforce, the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM, empowers companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way. The company was founded on three disruptive ideas: a new technology model in cloud computing, a pay-as-you-go business model, and a new integrated corporate philanthropy model. These founding principles have taken our company to great heights, including being named one of Forbes’s “World’s Most Innovative Company” five years in a row and one of Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” eight years in a row. We are the fastest growing of the top 10 enterprise software companies, and this level of growth equals incredible opportunities to grow a career at Salesforce. Together, with our whole Ohana (Hawaiian for "family") made up of our employees, customers, partners and communities, we are working to improve the state of the world.
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