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Title: Lead Software Engineer - Tableau
Location: Bangalore, India

Job Description

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.

About Tableau:
Salesforce is growing and Tableau is an integral part of this growth.Tableau introduced the power of visual analytics to the world, making it the de-facto standard in the enterprise. Tableau has been the leader in the Gartner’s BI and Analytics Magic Quadrant. We've continuously invested in research and development at an unrivaled pace, developing solutions to help anyone working with data to get to answers faster and uncover unanticipated insights. Tableau helps customers to deploy and scale a data-driven culture driving resilience and value through powerful outcomes.

Team Description:
As we embark on the journey of Tableau Cloud and transform our product to become online-first, the Cloud Platform Team in India is responsible for building platforms, services and foundational components that make the product enterprise grade, and operate at cloud scale. This distributed system provides capabilities such as cluster management, orchestration, routing, caching, object and metadata stores, distributed file system, security, encryption, multi-cloud architecture, and more! If you are a driven individual with a passion for large-scale distributed computing, and strong interest in building high-volume, low latency, auto scaling platforms, you have come to the right place! You will be integral to the delivery of our next-generation Tableau Cloud product.

Responsibilities:
* Self-Starter: You are self motivated, a quick learner, and go deep into the problem space. You can break the problem statement into clear deliverables to bring clarity for the team and are always looking for ways to innovate, improve, and raise the bar!
* Role Model: Demonstrate high proficiency in engineering best practices, such as reliability, availability, concurrency, security, scalability, extensibility, accessibility, maintainability, testability, and overall quality.
* Driver: Possess engineering and product excellence mindset and lead other engineers by example to continuously improve the quality of deliverables and productivity. Take full ownership of the end-to-end quality of the code deployed in production
* Customer Success: Engage with Product Managers to clarify customer requirements, propose viable workarounds, and understand related priorities better.
Influencer: Review the team designs and provide constructive and clear feedback to advocate for the right thing and unblock team members quickly.
* Mentor: Provide technical coaching to junior team members to help improve their overall skills and knowledge, primarily by using techniques such as pair-programming and reviews.
Communicator: Communicate clearly and efficiently with cross functional partners and stakeholders to share information, resolve dependencies or problems, and integrate feedback.

Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years of software development experience
- Experience in building large scale distributed systems and Software-as-a-Service(SaaS) applications
- Solid experience in API development, API lifecycle management, REST and microservices design.
- Deep understanding of object-oriented programming and experience in Java and Spring framework.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies, continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD)
- Ability to support / resolve production customer escalations with excellent debugging and problem solving skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences or equivalent field

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in Business Intelligence, Data and Analytics domain.
- Familiarity with Data model design, database technologies (RDBMS & NoSQL).
- Experience with public cloud services (AWS/ GCP/ Azure) and cloud technologies like terraform, spinnaker, EKS, GKE, etc.
- Experience with Containers and Container Orchestration systems (such as Kubernetes, Docker Swarm etc)
- Prior experience working with a global team
- Master’s degree in Computer Sciences or equivalent field