Database Engineering Senior Associate
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The Associate Database Engineer will support Salesforce’s GovCloud Database team in delivering data migration, capacity management, and cloud infrastructure improvements for government cloud customers. The role focuses on database automation, production reliability, testing, monitoring, incident response, and customer support. Candidates must meet U.S. citizenship and screening requirements, be located in North America, and participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
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Description This candidate must be a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized) operating on U.S. Soil who does not hold dual citizenship and has the ability to meet customer and government screening standards applicable to this role, including a Criminal Justice Information Services screening with fingerprint scan. Due to the citizenship requirements for this role, which supports U.S. federal, state, and/or local government customers, citizenship will be verified through two of the following REAL ID Act documents: U.S. Passport, Passport Card, REAL Driver’s License, Global Entry Card, U.S. Government CAC/PIV. You agree to complete a Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) for a Moderate Public Trust position with the U.S. federal government and gain other clearances as deemed appropriate for the role.
The Experience
The GovCloud Database team is committed to the security and efficiency of data and database management. We build technology solutions for the diverse needs of our government cloud customers, including services that keep our databases and applications running smoothly.
As an Associate Database Engineer, you'll help deliver scalable data migration, capacity management, and cloud infrastructure improvements. We're looking for database automation engineers who are ready to take on significant challenges and drive innovation in database technology.
What You'll Actually Be Doing
- Come up with innovative ideas to improve performance, scalability, and resilience in a large-scale platform
- Implement comprehensive functional and system tests for your area of responsibility and for overall database quality
- Debug, conduct root cause analysis, and diagnose defects
- Participate in database automation and feature enhancement on premises and in public cloud platforms
- Take responsibility and accountability for the availability and reliability of all production databases
- Work with other Engineering teams to triage issues
- Define, develop, and deploy system monitoring requirements and thresholds, as well as corrective actions
- Improve system reliability through predictive analysis
- Collaborate with stakeholders and give them detailed feedback on resiliency initiatives
- Participate in production Incident Management and Escalation Management calls and drive incidents to resolution
- Provide technical and platform support to the customers and stakeholders who use the production systems
You're Our Person If...
- Strong background in Computer Science or a related technical field
- Located in North America
- Python, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) skills
- 0-2 years of experience deploying distributed applications using containers (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, EKS, GKE)
- 0-2 years of hands-on AWS experience, including building and operating production-grade infrastructure
- 0-2 years of database engineering experience (relational, NoSQL, or both)
- 0-2 years of Linux system engineering experience
- 0-2 years of scripting or programming experience in Shell, Python, and/or Golang
- Willing and ready to participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation
Even Better If...
- Practical experience using AI tools, such as AI coding assistants or generative AI, to speed up development, automate workflows, or improve infrastructure quality
- Experience with log management and analytics platforms such as Splunk or the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
- Kubernetes
- Cybersecurity fundamentals
- Experience with PostgreSQL
- Experience in any of the monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, etc.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 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. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.
How this job compares
Set against the 935 open Cloud Infrastructure jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$170–266K/yr85 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 101 open Cloud Infrastructure jobs in California and 935 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four Cloud Infrastructure postings that state a minimum ask for (median 8 years, across 701 postings).
- Education
- 309 of the 935 open Cloud Infrastructure jobs (33%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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