Software Engineering PMTS (Elasticsearch) @ Salesforce

As part of one of the fastest growing clouds at Salesforce, the Commerce Search teams have an exciting long-term roadmap dedicated to building scalable services that will power searching for products and content amongst the worlds most trusted brands. Since search is the entry point for most commerce shoppers, we play a critical role in our customers success.

We are a collaborative team that strives for quality in product, software engineering best practices, and focus on impact. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join a new team in helping building out and scale our Search platform.

Responsibilities/Duties
Lead feature development throughout the software lifecycle: gather requirements, design, build, test, and deploy
Help scale our search services which need to support low latency and high throughput
Have experience with reliably delivering high-quality, distributed, testable, and scalable software
Mentor others in development technologies, tools, and processes
Present your own designs to internal/external groups and review designs of others
Develop test strategies, design automation frameworks, write unit/functional tests to drive up code coverage and automation metrics
Service ownership operate the service, improve supportability, and help resolve customer issues
Improve developer productivity through tooling and software engineering best practices
Participate in the team s on-call rotation to address sophisticated problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available

 

Skills and Experience

bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
A good understanding of object-oriented programming and experience in at least one object-oriented programming language, eg Java, C++.
At least 12 years of object oriented programming experience
Experience using Git / GitHub
Experience in automated testing including unit and functional testing using Java, JUnit, JSUnit, Selenium
Previous experience with SaaS development
Team player, get-it-done attitude and quick learner
Understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies
Experience with Search technologies like Lucene, Elasticsearch, Solr is a huge plus
Experience working on building Search Platforms/features is a huge plus