Software Engineering SMTS

Salesforce Partner Canada; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Software Engineer SMTS to help design and operate the internal Kafka-as-a-Service platform powering real-time data pipelines and analytics. You will contribute to distributed systems, container orchestration, and infrastructure tooling across multiple cloud environments.

The role emphasizes on-call ownership, architectural leadership, and collaboration with teams across commercial, GovCloud, and sovereign cloud environments. Strong Java and Terraform skills are essential.

Qualifications

• A related technical degree is required.
• 2-5+ years backend software development experience.
• Deep knowledge of Java, Golang, Python, or Ruby.
• Experience with open source: Kafka, Spinnaker, Zookeeper.
• Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a critical service.
• Experience with Agile development and Test Driven Development.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting apps.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms.
• Design, develop, debug, and operate resilient distributed systems across data centers.
• Write and maintain microservices on Kubernetes, Docker, and Mesos.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident investigations.
• Produce architectural designs that influence decisions across teams.

Skills

Distributed systems

Kafka internals

Kubernetes engineering

Terraform

Java development

Open source contributions

On-call experience

Architectural design

Education

Related technical degree

Tools

Spinnaker

Zookeeper

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Software Engineer SMTS

The Ajna team builds and operates Salesforce's internal Kafka-as-a-Service platform — the distributed messaging backbone that powers real-time data pipelines, alerting, analytics, and event streaming across every major Salesforce product and cloud environment.

Description

The Ajna team builds and operates Salesforce's internal Kafka-as-a-Service platform — the distributed messaging backbone that powers real-time data pipelines, alerting, analytics, and event streaming across every major Salesforce product and cloud environment. The platform serves a broad ecosystem of internal engineering teams across commercial, GovCloud, and sovereign cloud environments globally. This team pursues principled, high-impact architectural evolution with direct consequences at production scale. The team operates with distributed coverage across Pacific and India Standard Time zones, maintains continuous on-call coverage, and is actively invested in intelligent automation — including AI‑powered tooling built in-house to support triage and auto‑remediation at scale.

What We Are Looking For

• Strong distributed systems fundamentals, including deep understanding of Kafka internals (leader election, ISR management, consumer groups, log compaction, partition rebalancing) and the ability to reason about consistency and availability trade-offs in multi‑tenant environments
• Kubernetes engineering proficiency, including StatefulSets, Autoscaling, PersistentVolumeClaims, and Helm; demonstrated experience debugging production Kubernetes workloads
• Infrastructure‑as‑code experience with Terraform for cloud resources (IAM, object storage, messaging, block storage)
• Java engineering depth; the team's core services are Java‑based and require clean, performant, operationally sound implementation
• Operational ownership mindset: participation in on‑call rotation, production incident investigation, and systematic root cause analysis
• Strong written communication skills and the ability to produce architectural designs that influence decisions across team and organizational boundaries

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
• Writing microservices on containerization frameworks such as Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos
• 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

• A related technical degree required
• 2- 5+ years backend software development experience
• Deep knowledge of programming in Java, Golang, Python, or Ruby
• Experience using and contributing to open source technology: Kafka, Spinnaker, Zookeeper
• Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a critical service
• Experience with Agile development methodology and Test Driven Development
• Experience with critical infrastructure services 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.

Salesforce Information

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