Principal Software Engineer

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Software Engineering

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About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. 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.

The Unified Marketing team is building the next generation of marketing solutions and is singularly focused on the needs of the Marketer. Our success is defined by our end-user's success with both our current and future state Marketing Engagement solutions. We lean into cohesive end-to-end campaign management experiences, allowing our customers to humanize moments for their customers, harness efficiencies to do more with less, and optimize the impact of their marketing spend. We define and build a Marketing Engagement product portfolio that strives to meet the needs of every marketing team for customers of all sizes, shapes, and industries.

Salesforce has immediate opportunities for very versatile Software Engineers who want their lines of code to have significant and measurable positive impact on users, the company's bottom line, and the industry. Marketing Cloud engineering builds innovative features across content, channels, data, and orchestration.

You will work with a group of outstanding engineers to build the breakthrough features our customers will love, adopt, and use while keeping our trusted platform stable and scalable. The software engineer role at Salesforce encompasses architecture, system design, implementation, and testing to ensure we build products right and release them with high quality. We pride ourselves in writing high-quality, maintainable code that strengthens the stability of the product and makes our “future self” life more manageable. We celebrate the individual strengths of each team member while cultivating everyone on the team to grow into the best version of themselves. We believe autonomous teams will empower individuals, products, companies, and customers to thrive.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, design, implement, test and deliver highly scalable products

• Master our development process, culture and code base, then improve it

• Operate optimally in the hybrid engineering model where engineers are encouraged to be able to craft and complete the vital work to ensure quality in their own code as well as other engineers

• 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

• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to address sophisticated problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available

Required skills:

• A related technical degree required, plus 10+ years of relevant experience

• Deep knowledge of object oriented programming and experience with at least one object oriented programming language (Java, Javascript, C++, C#, Ruby, Python)

• Proven understanding of web technologies, such as JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, XML, JavaScript, JSON, and/or Ajax

• Knowledge of Web Services (SOAP, REST, GraphQL, etc) and a strong understanding of distributed systems and concepts such as reliability, scalability, and performance.

• Knowledge of data concepts related to relational databases, including the ability to build, implement, and debug complex queries.

• Experience developing client-side code via CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, JSON, and Ajax

• Validated understanding of Database technologies such as SQL, PL/SQL and relational database schema design

• Experience in automated testing including unit and functional testing

• Experience developing in an enterprise environment such as source code control, IDE, continuous deployment, and release management (Git, perforce, Eclipse, Intellij, VSCode, Jenkins)

Preferred Skills:

• Excellent cross-group communication and problem-