Overview

We’re looking for passionate engineers who will join us in reinventing how databases are deployed, used, and protected.

The Department of Data is a team that provides performant data services in a highly dynamic environment. We manage one of the largest collections of databases in the world, and you could have an impact on the developers’ experiences by designing and implementing simple, intuitive workflows for running databases and interacting with their data.

In this role you will work directly with the team behind Heroku Postgres on automating operations behind our database-as-a-service platforms. You will write tools to reliably operate thousands of servers including automated backups, disaster recovery, high availability, orchestration, monitoring systems, configuration management, security and much more. If you have passion for data storage and management, intuition for code maintainability, and care about making customers succeed, get in touch.

The stack for day-to-day operations includes Ruby with Sequel and Sinatra, Python and some bash. This role requires interfacing with AWS services (EC2, S3, VPC and so on), writing and maintaining scalable system administration and monitoring, and working with Postgres infrastructure at scale. Beyond that, you should be excited to learn any of these skills:

  • Go, Python and Bash
  • Other databases (Redis, Cassandra, Kafka)
  • Unix tools and services
  • LXC containerization, Docker
  • Information security

In addition to seeing your resume, we’d like to get to know you. In your resume please consider including:

  • An example of source code you’ve worked on, or a link to your Github account
  • Two or three code snippets that you think represent your coding style
  • A brief description of your skills, interests, and work style
  • A link to your blog and/or other personal/hobby apps you’ve built

Heroku is a fast-growing business unit of Salesforce.com. Our work environment is collaborative, flexible and fun. We’re focused on technical and operational excellence and customer success.

Salesforce, the Customer Success Platform and world’s #1 CRM, empowers companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way. The company was founded on three disruptive ideas: a new technology model in cloud computing, a pay-as-you-go business model, and a new integrated corporate philanthropy model. These founding principles have taken our company to great heights, including being named one of Forbes’s “World’s Most Innovative Company” six years in a row and one of Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” nine years in a row. We are the fastest growing of the top 10 enterprise software companies, and this level of growth equals incredible opportunities to grow a career at Salesforce. Together, with our whole Ohana (Hawaiian for “family”) made up of our employees, customers, partners and communities, we are working to improve the state of the world.

About Heroku

Heroku is a thriving business unit of Salesforce. We are based in a beautiful office in SOMA, San Francisco and have remote employees on four continents and thirteen countries. Our work environment is fun, flexible, and collaborative. We are focused on technical and operational excellence and customer success. Together we are changing the way web application development and deployment happens.

It's about the makers

We love what we do and we’re delivering the creative results to prove it. Our work is our craft and we delight in building and shipping things that make our users happy and productive. Working at Heroku will push you to do your best, providing endless opportunity for personal and professional growth.

Make developers' lives awesome

We’re on a mission to deliver a great developer experience. Our goal is for Heroku to be a joy to use — a platform that enables the focus and flow developers require to build great apps. We pay attention to every detail, applying thoughtful design to the app lifecycle and every new feature.

Heroku’s culture is vibrant, whether you’re online or in the office, we’re working together in an environment that is friendly and productive.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a cross-functional team tasked with delivering the next major version of the Heroku product. We’re developing a cohesive set of features and capabilities that will serve as the core of a new Heroku offering aimed at applications with demanding security, compliance and runtime requirements.