Customer Centric Engineer

About the role

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Job Category

Software Engineering

The Experience

The Customer Centric Engineering team keeps reliability and trust at the center of everything Salesforce builds. As a Customer Centric Engineer, you work on a broad set of challenging customer issues across the Salesforce Core CRM Platform, using a wide range of technologies to troubleshoot and resolve them. You partner closely with Salesforce customer support engineers to troubleshoot customer implementations of the Salesforce Lightning UI, working in JavaScript on the browser and Java on the server.

What You'll Actually Be Doing

• Use your Java, JavaScript, database, Web API, and UI skills to solve critical customer escalations, finding root causes and proposing fixes and test cases
• Provide timely, clear information to customer facing teams and mentor internal support teams on technical issues and best practices
• Champion supportability and debuggability initiatives, build new debugging tools, and partner with engineers on the design and continuous improvement of infrastructure services like logging, monitoring, and alerting
• Analyze how customers use the platform, help drive continuous improvement of the offering, and share metrics, trends, and success stories with engineering teams

You're Our Person If you have

• 4+ years of proven, related technical experience with at least 2 years of experience of professional Java development experience
• Developer-level technical skills along with a strong desire to interact with customers, support teams and management on high-profile issues critical to the long-term success of the company
• Unparalleled debugging, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Learn quickly and be productive in a highly collaborative, lightning-fast environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, as exemplified by clear bug/issue explanations, documentation of knowledge and comfort interacting with all levels of management
• Ability to take complex problems and break them down into smaller tasks

In-depth, hands-on experience with Linux, networking, server, and cloud architectures.

• Deep understanding of fundamental network technologies like DNS, Load Balancing, SSL, TCP/IP, SQL, HTTP.
• Knowledge about cloud security and best practices.
• Must have a background in Java and Javascript
• Very good understanding of RDBMS.
• Experience with a known IDE: Eclipse or IntelliJ or VSCode
• A related technical degree required.

Even Better If

• You have experience with log parsing and analysis in Splunk, including building reports and dashboards
• You have experience working with Amazon Web Services
• You've worked with Lightning Web Components, Lightning Locker, or Lightning Data Service
• You understand W3C standards and have experience resolving cross-browser and platform compatibility issues, along with troubleshooting SOAP and REST based APIs

Unleash Your Potential

• When you join Salesforce, you'll be limitless in all areas of your life.
• Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best.
• Together, we'll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love.
• Apply today to not only shape the future - but to redefine what's possible - for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.

Pay and benefits

At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $117,200 - $176,700 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $141,200 - $194,200 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.