Quick Summary
This is a fully remote, 6+ month contract for a Senior Salesforce Platform Engineer focused on building and maintaining highly scalable infrastructure. The role requires advanced Apex programming, Salesforce development expertise (APIs, triggers, batch processing), and experience optimizing code for high-volume data loads. Responsibilities include platform stability maintenance, system architecture design/mentoring, public API development, and working with big data technologies (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark). Candidates must have a strong software development background, Linux administration skills, experience with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Digital Ocean), and proficiency in automation/orchestration tools like Puppet, Ansible, Docker, or Kubernetes, alongside working knowledge of languages such as PHP, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Elixir, or Go.
Senior Salesforce Platform Engineer
Location: Fully Remote
Duration: 6+ Months (Possible Extensions)
Job Summary
Responsible for building outstanding software solutions to drive business success. This role involves building various aspects of the company's infrastructure to power innumerable 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 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 best possible, most robust, and extensible solutions from feature requests
- Work with big data technology (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, etc)
- Work with Data Scientists to develop rich value-added features
- Work with DBA to create ETL and Data Warehouse system
- Work with Operations to automate solutions and increase service reliability
- Closely monitor all platform related production systems
- Building 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.
- Continual improvement and fine-tuning of various alerting and monitoring systems.
Qualifications
- Experience in software/systems development.
- Strong software development background, 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 of at production scale.
For applications and inquiries, contact: [email protected]