Senior/Lead Backend Engineer

Company: Tableau Software
Location: Stanford
Posted on: June 24, 2025

Job Description:

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI Data CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place. At Tableau, we are on a mission to help people see and understand data. We create intuitive and powerful analytics software that enables thousands of leading organizations and millions of people around the world to find insights in their data. The Tableau Provisioning team provides the infrastructure Tableau Continuous Integration (CI) systems run on. We provide solutions to the development and release teams to enable them to build, test, release, deploy, and operate the amazing Tableau products at scale while optimizing the cost to serve. What you will be doing As a Software Engineer on the Provisioning team, you will be working to ensure that the CI infrastructure is available, secure, and cost-effective, while ensuring a great experience for Tableau developers. Some of the things you will be doing include: • Design, build and automate processes and systems. Breakdown and estimate work, select and incorporate the appropriate tools and frameworks for the job. • Provide technical leadership at a component or service scope. • Continuously evaluate existing processes & systems, identify optimization opportunities, design and implement changes for better efficiency. • Lead platform upgrade projects • Take ownership of patching, upgrading, validating and releasing the AMIs supporting the CI systems across the supported platforms • Participate in on-call activities, identify and respond to issues affecting the service health, collaborate across teams to mitigate them. • We have a strong mandate to operationalize AI solutions related to our scope - you are expected to help identify opportunities, prototype and roll-out one or multiple teams and use cases. Qualifications • You have 5 years industry experience coding commercial software and a passion for solving complex problems in large-scale distributed systems. • You have solid development skills with object-oriented languages (preferably Python) and good understanding of CI systems, containerized environments (Kubernetes), and cloud infrastructure technologies • You are experienced in leading projects across development teams, particularly using Agile methodologies. • You have 3 years hands-on experience with AWS services and Terraform • You have a good understanding of the particularities of Linux, macOS and Windows. • Experience with Bash shell and Windows PowerShell is a plus • Excellent understanding of the agile software development lifecycle

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