Description Software Engineer, Transaction Processing, Distributed SystemsAre you a database expert, or passionate about building database technologies that supports relentless growth and innovation?We are looking for experienced Core Database Internal Engineers with a strong database internals and distributed systems background to work in a team responsible for architecting, developing and testing the next generation of RDBMS. You will join a team of world class, highly motivated software engineers and database experts. You will design and develop robust and highly scalable software products to support the staggering growth of Salesforce.You will need familiarity with database internals, distributed systems or networking, interest in system programming, exceptional software engineering skills, and relish the opportunity to work on very complex, highly concurrent, highly scalable and resilient systems. You must have a proven track record of success where you demonstrated end to end ownership of architecture, design, implementation, monitoring, testing, and product support on large mission critical systems at petabyte scale. Areas where you may be working on include logging/recovery, distributed lock management, replication, high availability, compression, cache management, encryption, scale out, monitoring, and serviceability. We work in a fast paced, highly collaborative, agile environment. We are a hybrid team that values end to end service ownership, from conception to architecture, design to implementation, testing to deployment to customer engagement and service.Responsibilities:* Work in a team to design and develop core database system functionalities.* Come up with new architecture and design to solve complex scalability problems.* Come up with innovative ideas to improve robustness and performance.* Implement comprehensive functional and system-test for your area of responsibility and for overall database quality.* Debug, conduct root cause analysis, diagnose defect.* Actively participate in release and deployment process.Qualifications:* BS or higher degree in Computer Science.* Deep expertise with distributed systems and consensus algorithms.* Experience with highly concurrent multi-threaded/multi-process data structures and design.* Innovator with good ideas, strong problem solving and communication skills, and a results oriented attitude.* Ability to learn quickly and deliver high quality code in a fast-paced, dynamic agile team environment.* Strong Java or C programming skills.Desired Skills:* PostgreSQL software development experience and community involvement as a contributor would be a huge plus.* Experience building a high-performance large-scale database platform.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. For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.