Data Engineer (Senior, Lead, Principal)

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Job Category

Software Engineering

Job DetailsAbout Salesforce

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And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world.

If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good you’ve come to the right place.

Data Engineer

Note : By applying to the Data Engineer posting, recruiters and hiring managers across the organization hiring data engineers will review your resume.

Our goal is for you to apply once and have your resume reviewed by multiple hiring teams.

Salesforce has a number of teams hiring Data Engineers with a variety of experience across, but not limited to, the following types of teams : Legal, Data Intelligence, Monetization Strategy, Marketing, and Data Science.

Each team is made up of data scientists, engineers, growth analysts, and information management authorities who are dedicated to driving product strategy with data-driven insights.

This role involves making an impact by driving continuous improvements in moving, aggregating, profiling, sampling, testing and analyzing terabytes of data.

Your Impact

• Be responsible for the technical solution design, lead the technical architecture and implementation of data acquisition and integration projects, both batch and real time.
• Define the overall solution architecture needed to implement a layered data stack that ensures a high level of data quality and timely insights.
• Communicate with product owners and analysts to clarify requirements.
• Craft technical solutions and assemble design artifacts (functional design documents, data flow diagrams, data models, etc.).
• Build data pipelines data processing tools and technologies in open source and proprietary products.
• Serve the team as a domain expert & mentor for ETL design, and other related big data and programming technologies.
• Identify incomplete data, improve quality of data, and integrate data from several data sources.
• Proactively identify performance & data quality problems and drive the team to remediate them.
• Design and develop tailored data structures.
• Reinvent prototypes to create production-ready data flows.
• Support Data Science research by designing, developing, and maintaining all parts of the Big Data pipeline for reporting, statistical and machine learning, and computational requirements.
• Perform data profiling, sophisticated sampling, statistical testing, and testing of reliability on data.
• Clearly articulate pros and cons of various technologies and platforms in open source and proprietary products Implement proof of concept on new technology and tools to help the organization pick the best tools and solutions.
• Strong SQL optimization and performance tuning experience in a high volume data environment that uses parallel processing.
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to address sophisticated problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available.

Required Skills

• 4+ years experience in data engineering.
• Build programmatic ETL pipelines with SQL based technologies and platforms.
• Solid understanding of databases, and working with sophisticated datasets.
• Data governance, verification and data documentation using current tools and future adopted tools and platform.
• Work with different technologies (Python, shell scripts) and translate logic into well-performing SQL.
• Perform tasks such as writing scripts, web scraping, getting data from APIs etc.
• Automate data pipelines using scheduling tools like Airflow.
• Be prepared for changes in business direction and understand when to adjust designs.
• Experience writing production level SQL code and good understanding of Data Engineering pipelines.
• Experience with Hadoop ecosystem and similar frameworks.
• Previous projects should display technical leadership with an emphasis on data lake, data warehouse solutions, business intelligence, big data analytics, enterprise-scale custom data products.
• Knowledge of data modeling techniques and high-volume ETL / ELT design.
• Experience with version control systems (Github, Subversion) and deployment tools (e.g. continuous integration) required.
• Experience working with Public Cloud platforms like GPC, AWS, or Snowflake.
• Ability to work effectively in an unstructured and fast-paced environment both independently and in a team setting, with a high degree of self-management with clear communication and commitment to delivery timelines.
• A related technical degree required.

Benefits & Perks

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We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives such as equal pay, employee resource groups, inclusive benefits, and more.

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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.

For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $122,600 to $280,200.

For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $133,800 to $305,600.

Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link : https : / / www.salesforcebenefits.com.

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