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To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.Job CategoryProducts and TechnologyJob DetailsWhy Salesforce Heroku?Heroku operates the world’s largest PaaS cloud, continuously delivering millions of apps with 6+ million container deployments, 16+ billion routing requests, and 10+ terabytes of application logs per day. Our vision is for developers to focus on their applications and leave operations to us. We are heartfelt about our users’ problems.Our engineers work on services written in a mix of languages—principally Ruby and Go—running on AWS or our own cloud abstractions. Heroku operates in a total ownership model: not only will your team develop and maintain the services you own, but you’ll operate them in production environments and carry a pager to support their operations.The Heroku engineering team typically works remotely—and has for years. This job is open to people anywhere in North America (the United States and Canada) willing to work North American business hours (roughly 9AM-5PM Pacific or Eastern). You may optionally choose to work from a local Salesforce office (if there is one near you), or fully remote.Who are you?You are interested in and passionate about the software development lifecycle, related best practices, testing, packaging, and release cycle.
You value empathy and teamwork. We celebrate our successes as a team, and we help each other to achieve that success.
You have a strong commitment to engineering excellence. We care about our code, our interfaces, our tests, our continuous delivery pipelines, and our metrics and monitoring.
You have the skills to give and receive feedback. We highly value communication within the team, continuously improving ourselves, and the way we work together.
You have a good ability to solve problems in complex systems: you’re not afraid to dive in, read the logs, ask for help, and follow the stack traces wherever they go.
You can work and prioritize in an environment that has many simultaneous projects, teams, interrupts, and priorities. It is important that you are able to understand our key drivers and use that understanding to help prioritize your efforts.
RequirementsExperience contributing to complex distributed systems & knowledgeable about networked and internet connected applications.
Willing to work on a distributed team (majority of the team works from home) spanning multiple time zones. Prior remote work experience not required, as many of us learned how to work remotely on the job.
Our main languages are Ruby and Go, including Python, Java, and Erlang. Experience with Ruby & Go is preferred, but lack of experience with these languages is not a deal-breaker. The candidate will be immersed in a variety of languages day-to-day and must be comfortable writing, reviewing, and switching between them.
What's this job like?Designing and delivering products to customers through leveraging the existing Heroku platform in order to extend it to provide new features such as Heroku CI, Review Apps 2.0, and Functions as a Service.
Test, troubleshoot, and debug issues related to compatibility, functionality, and performance
Participation in the on-call rotation with your team to keep services operational and highly available
Contributions to Open Source, steering projects that are important to us such as Cloud Native Buildpacks.
Other likely projects include:
Stability and scaling improvements
Reducing toil through automation
Keeping our systems healthy, secure and up-to-date
How do I know if I should apply?If you have experience with any of the following topics, you should apply!You are a curious, self-directed problem solver who enjoys working with people
You have a strong software development background
Experience with cloud computing platforms, such as AWS, GCP, Azure.
Experience with Unix, REST API’s, HTTP services, databases, and web programming
Curiosity to use technology like OCI Images / Docker, Kubernetes, KNative, Tekton, Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNB)
You have an interest in: software development lifecycle, continuous testing and delivery, devops, API development, web application development, distributed computing, complex systems, PaaS, IaaS, cloud services.
Salesforce informationWe are Salesforce Engineering (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBtYfsoh9U8&feature=youtu.be)Salesforce Ohana CultureSalesforce Engineering behind the cloud (https://engineering.salesforce.com/)Open to Fully Remote, Flex (1-3 days/week in the office), or Office-Based (4-5 days/week in office)For Colorado-based roles: Minimum annual salary of $98,900. You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://salesforcebenefits.com/us/candidate.htmlAccommodationsIf you require assistance due to a disability applying for open positions please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form (https://careers.mail.salesforce.com/accommodations-request-form) .Posting StatementAt Salesforce we believe that the business of business is to improve the state of our world. Each of us has a responsibility to drive Equality in our communities and workplaces. 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. Learn more about Equality at Salesforce and explore our benefits.Salesforce, Inc (http://salesforce.com/) . and Salesforce.org are Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employers. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Salesforce, Inc (http://salesforce.com/) . and Salesforce.org do not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Salesforce, Inc (http://salesforce.com/) . and Salesforce.org will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Salesforce, Inc (http://salesforce.com/) . or Salesforce.org .Salesforce welcomes all.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.AccommodationsIf you require assistance due to a disability applying for open positions please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form (https://careers.mail.salesforce.com/accommodations-request-form) .Posting StatementAt Salesforce we believe that the business of business is to improve the state of our world. Each of us has a responsibility to drive Equality in our communities and workplaces. 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. Learn more about Equality at Salesforce and explore our benefits.Salesforce, Inc (http://salesforce.com/) . and Salesforce.org are Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employers. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Salesforce, Inc (http://salesforce.com/) . and Salesforce.org do not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Salesforce, Inc (http://salesforce.com/) . and Salesforce.org will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Salesforce, Inc (http://salesforce.com/) . or Salesforce.org .Salesforce welcomes all.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.
