Distributed Systems Software Engineer - Public Cloud (Senior/Lead)

Salesforce, Inc.; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a software developer for their Public Cloud engineering team in Vancouver. The role focuses on innovating and maintaining large-scale distributed systems, ensuring high reliability and performance for millions of users. Candidates should have a strong backend development background, particularly in Java, Golang, or Python, and experience with cloud platforms. The company offers various benefits including wellbeing reimbursement and parental leave.

Benefits

Wellbeing reimbursement

Generous parental leave

Adoption assistance

Fertility benefits

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend software development experience.
• Deep knowledge of programming in Java, Golang, or Python.
• Experience with real-time data streaming pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools for public cloud platforms.
• Design, develop, and operate resilient distributed systems.
• Participate in the on-call rotation for real-time problem resolution.

Skills

Java

Golang

Python

Apache Kafka

Tools

Terraform

Open Source Technologies

Job description

Note: By applying to the Software Backend Development posting, recruiters and hiring managers across the organization hiring Software Engineers will review your resume. Our goal is for you to apply once and have your resume reviewed by multiple hiring teams.

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We are seeking a software developer for our Public Cloud engineering team to make a significant impact by innovating and maintaining a large-scale distributed systems engineering platform that ships hundreds of features daily to tens of millions of users. You will join world-class engineers to design, implement, and test solutions ensuring our platform remains highly reliable, lightning fast, supremely secure, and preserves all customizations and integrations every we ship. You should be able to thrive in highly collaborative environment and have a proven ability to drive toward highly available and optimized data management services for our customers.

Your Impact:

• Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on our public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba
• Designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers
• Using and contributing to open source technology (Spinnaker, Zookeeper, etc.)
• Developing Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform
• Resolving complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance
• Eat, sleep, and breathe services. You have experience balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to address complex problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available

Required Skills:

• 5+ years backend software development experience
• Deep knowledge of programming in Java, Golang, or Python
• Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a critical service
• Experience with real-time data streaming pipelines using Apache Kafka, focusing on high-volume, low-latency systems and ensuring data flow efficiency and system stability.
• Experience with critical infrastructure services running on public cloud platforms including, monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting applications

Benefits & Perks

Check out our benefits site which explains our various benefits, including wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more.

Benefits & Perks
Check out our benefits site which explains our various benefits, including wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more.

Salesforce Information
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