The mission of our team (UIP & BDI - Unified Intelligence Platform & Big Data Infrastructure) is to make using data at scale easy and enabling, by marrying together cutting-edge technology with an exceptional user experience. Massive amounts of data are generated each day at Salesforce. Crafting a platform that enables our users to understand, optimize, and re-envision how the business is and should operate is critical. Modern distributed systems (e.g. Spark, Presto, & Airflow), coupled with AI tech (e.g. Agents and Jupyter), and custom data applications (e.g. a high-scale data ingestion service and a comprehensive data catalog) are a few of the ingredients this team weaves together to make this possible.
We are looking for a technical ace and thought leader in the big data space to join the team. You will be working with exceptional peers that you can teach and learn from. This is a rare opportunity to leverage and extend your expertise, as we address internal-facing and external-facing big data platform needs. This is just a small sample of the interesting challenges ahead. We are constantly extending and innovating our platform.
Some current areas of focus include:
• How can we ensure we provide highly compelling, “first class” big data offerings (e.g. easy to use, highly enabling, and well integrated with Salesforce’s centralized infrastructure / tooling)?
• How can we efficiently and effectively support our big data infrastructure within and across the major cloud providers?
• How can we strike the right balance of isolation and cost efficiency for the hundreds of teams and thousands of users that leverage our data analytics platform?
• How should we weave in agents to ease and accelerate platform usage and support?
• How can we ensure we serve as the de facto destination for internal analytics and as a turnkey data refinery for downstream systems?
• How can we best implement and extend the Iceberg Rest Catalog and related table management services?
• How should we gather, distill, and present data lineage information?
Required Skills / About you:
• Extensive (big) data platform architecting & development experience
• Extensive experience working in the public cloud
• Ability to transform high-level needs into well-thought-out system designs
• Thrive on taking full ownership of projects, driving them forward to completion
• Exceptional software development skills (e.g. Python, Java, and / or Scala)
• Love getting things done (e.g. hands-on prototyping a new approach)
• Expert problem solver
• Great communicator
• Good listener / curious / adaptable / collaborative
• Ability to lead and influence across all levels of the organization
• Proven experience thinking outside the box and solving tough strategic challenges
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