Backend Software Engineer (Security) - Senior/Lead/Principal

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Job Category: Software Engineering

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Our Security Software Engineering team builds and operates highly scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems to deliver cloud-scale security software services. We provide the fundamental building blocks to improve and preserve customer trust in Salesforce's products across multiple public cloud substrates and our own network infrastructure. We architect and implement our services to protect Salesforce products/infrastructure and defend against malicious attacks. You will have the unique opportunity to learn from the best industry security experts and integrate that into your software and service engineering.

Required Skills:

• Experience building large scale distributed systems, especially in cloud environments
• Deep understanding of object-oriented programming and experience with at least one object-oriented programming language (Java, Go, Python, C++, C#)
• Experience with public cloud services (AWS or Google Cloud Platform or Azure)
• Experience with Scrum or other agile development methodologies, with attention to code quality, delivering secure code
• Experience working in a complex team environment. Able to deliver under pressure.
• Good knowledge of operating systems (Linux, Mac, and Windows)
• A related technical degree required
• Prior security knowledge is not required.

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge working with relational databases MySQL, Postgres
• Familiar with open source technologies, such as ZooKeeper, MongoDB
• Experience with big data and pipeline technologies, such as Hadoop, Kafka
• Knowledge or experience with machine learning
• Experience building services with Docker and Kubernetes
• Good knowledge of network technologies, such as TCP/IP, DNS or load balancer

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