Software Engineer, Metadata API  /  Salesforce.com

  • Compensation:
  • Competitive Salary + Bonus
  • Skills:
  • Java JavaScript PL/SQL Selenium Oracle API
  • Benefits:
  • Comprehensive package including:

    • Retirement Savings Plan
    • 3 Weeks Vacation plus Holidays
    • Medical/Dental
    • Gym Membership
    • More perks than we can mention
  • About Salesforce.com:
  • Salesforce.com is “The World’s Most Innovative Company” (Forbes Magazine, August 2011). This is an exciting, rewarding place to do the best work of your life. We’re growing fast. We hire talented, energetic professionals. Join this team as we take a broad, enterprise-wide view and work with almost every other team to make their features available through the API. 

Questions & Answers with Salesforce.com

What are the top requirements to qualify for this position?

As a senior member of the Metadata API team you’ll use your passion for software to consistently make an impact. Your colleagues look to you for guidance, and you love to share what you know to make the entire team better. You don’t accept the status quo. You challenge assumptions, and strive to improve everything you’re involved with. You exhibit the courage to respectfully disagree, and are prepared to back your position with evidence. 

We use a lot of familiar tools and technologies: Java, PL/SQL, Javascript, Oracle, Selenium but our recruiting efforts are language neutral. If you’re a software engineer and you're smart then we expect you to be able to learn new languages and technologies.

Why is this position open?

We need you to help shape the future of how Salesforce.com customers will create, deploy, and manage the next generation of modular cloud applications.

Describe the current team this person will join, including the reporting structure.

We work as a collaborative team with the shared goal of delivering excellent software, anchored in a culture of quality, delivery, and innovation. We blur the lines between development and testing by embracing the shared responsibility for writing testable, high performance, maintainable code. We deliver working software weekly via iterative and incremental development. Individuals on our self organizing team are motivated, trusted and continuously focused on technical excellence.

What percentage of the candidate's time will be spent on existing products/business, versus items that are new?

You can decide if you want to write your code on a Mac, a Windows PC, or a Linux box. We'll set you up with a fast workstation, lots of RAM, a couple of 24” monitors and your choice of a Windows Laptop or MacBook and set you loose to work your magic.

What challenges will this person face on a daily basis?

Working on the Metadata API team is an opportunity to design, build, and manage an API that’s used by countless customers to build and deploy cloud applications on the Salesforce platform. The Metadata API provides the foundation for Salesforce.com development tools such as the Force.com Migration Tool, Change Sets, and Salesforce Packages.

What are the growth opportunities for the person in this position?

We’re transforming the way companies are run and careers are made. In just 12 years, salesforce.com has grown into a $2.3 billion business and captured more than half of the market for software-as-a-service CRM applications. Find out how you can become one of the 7,700+ employees working in their #dreamjob in our San Francisco headquarters and cities throughout North America, Canada, Europe, Japan, and the larger Asia-Pacific region.

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Chad Labrosse

Senior Software Development Manager at Salesforce.com

We welcome your comments and questions about this Software Engineer, Metadata API opportunity at Salesforce.com.

2013-05-24 12:18:48