Quick Summary
Fully Remote Senior Salesforce Platform Engineer contract (6+ months) focused on building scalable software solutions, maintaining platform stability, and developing a public API. Requires advanced Apex programming, experience optimizing code for high-volume data loads, and familiarity with Salesforce APIs and batch processing. Candidates must also have a strong software development background, Linux administration skills, experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, etc.), and working knowledge of languages like PHP, Python, or JavaScript, alongside automation/orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible).
Senior Salesforce Platform Engineer
Location: Fully Remote
Duration: 6+ Months (Possible Extensions)
Job Summary
The Senior Salesforce Platform Engineer is responsible for building outstanding software solutions that drive business success. This role involves developing various aspects of the company's infrastructure to power conversations at scale.
TECHNICAL SKILLS Must Have
- Advanced Apex programming and Salesforce development experience.
- Experience with code optimization for high-volume data loads.
- Familiarity with integration patterns and external system connectivity.
- Knowledge of Salesforce APIs, triggers, and batch processing.
- Strong debugging and performance tuning skills.
Critical Deliverables
- Refactored Apex code designed to handle increased data volume.
- Updated integration logic for new products or data structures.
- Unit tests and deployment-ready code aligned with Salesforce best practices.
- Documentation of code changes and performance improvements.
Primary Responsibilities
- Maintain the company platform uptime, performance, stability, and scalability.
- Design, guide, mentor, and challenge system architecture and design with others.
- Develop and maintain a public API.
- Develop the most robust, extensible solutions possible from feature requests.
- Work with big data technology (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, etc.).
- Collaborate with Data Scientists to develop rich value-added features.
- Work with DBA to create ETL and Data Warehouse systems.
- Work with Operations to automate solutions and increase service reliability.
- Closely monitor all platform-related production systems.
- Build tools and processes to support analytics, monitoring, machine-learning, and data-warehousing platforms.
- Define and implement various strategies covering everything from subnets to backups to fog networking/computing configuration and deployments.
- Provision, configure, maintain, backup, and monitor onsite and cloud-based server resources.
- Define and implement deployment strategies for client-facing and internal tool systems.
- Continually improve and fine-tune various alerting and monitoring systems.
Qualifications
- Experience in software/systems development.
- Strong software development background, including experience building software systems.
- Working knowledge of at least one of the following languages: PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Elixir, Go or comparable.
- Strong background in Linux administration.
- Strong experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, etc.
- Strong understanding of IT security best practices.
- Experience with automation/configuration software (puppet, ansible), and/or orchestration software (docker swarm, kubernetes, etc).
- Understanding of computer networks.
- Experience with administration at production scale.
For applications and inquiries, contact: [email protected]