Principal Engineer PMTS (Apache, Kafka, Terraform)

About the role

Salesforce is hiring a Principal Engineer (PMTS) to lead its Monitoring Cloud Events team in Hyderabad, India. The team builds systems that handle huge amounts of data for Salesforce and keeps its cloud running correctly. The role combines building and maintaining observability stacks and data pipelines with mentoring engineers and acting as a service owner.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain an observability stack using in-house, open source and cloud-managed services, and run ETL data pipelines with big data tools.
• Monitor system health and fix problems quickly so services stay online.
• Mentor and teach other engineers to help them grow.
• Work with partners and customers worldwide to meet their needs.
• Own the services created from start to finish and contribute to making the cloud faster, safer and easier to use.

Required profile

• Deep experience building software and leading engineering teams.
• Ability to move, store and work with very large amounts of data.
• Hands-on experience with open-source tools such as Kafka, Flink and Apache Druid.
• Strong ETL pipeline skills and a keen eye for keeping systems online.
• Nice to have: prior observability stack experience, experience with global teams across time zones, and direct customer interaction.

Required skills

• Cloud and compute: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes (EKS/GKE)
• Infrastructure as code: Terraform
• OpenTelemetry, Vector/Fluent Bit, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Druid
• Backend languages: Java, Go, Python
• OLAP analytics: Apache Druid; logging and tracing: ClickHouse
• Time-series metrics: VictoriaMetrics, M3DB or Prometheus; visualization: Grafana, Apache Superset