Senior Software Engineer (DNS & Cloud Infrastructure)

Salesforce, Inc.; Ashington; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Care

Life Insurance

Retirement Savings

Employee Assistance Programs

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. seeks an experienced back-end engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale distributed systems on public cloud platforms. You will work on Kubernetes-based microservices, automation tooling, and IaC, while balancing live-site reliability and feature delivery in a fast-paced environment.

You should bring 5+ years in Python, deep knowledge of concurrency, and experience with CI/CD and cloud providers. Collaboration and on-call readiness are essential.

Qualifications

• Proven backend development experience with Python.
• Deep understanding of concurrency and scalable distributed systems.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and Test Driven Development.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate resilient distributed systems across data centers.
• Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools and validation platforms.
• Build microservices on Kubernetes and containerization tech stack.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code and cloud provisioning on AWS/GCP/Azure.
• Participate in on-call rotations to maintain service availability.
• Resolve complex performance and reliability issues with data-driven fixes.

Skills

Python

Concurrency

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Terraform

Networking

On-call

Education

Bachelor's in CS or related field

Tools

Grafana

Jenkins

Travis CI

Puppet

Chef

Salt

Ansible

Splunk

Spinnaker

Terraform

Job description

• Our Public Cloud engineering teams are responsible for innovating and maintaining a large scale distributed systems engineering platform that ships hundreds of features to production for tens of millions of users across all industries every day
• Our users count on our platform to be highly reliable, lightning fast, supremely secure, and to preserve all of their customizations and integrations every time we ship
• You will need deep experience with concurrency, large scale systems, proficiency with solving real-world data management challenges, a strong understanding of how to craft solutions that are highly available, and a proven ability to design, develop, and optimize the core back-end systems
• Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on our public cloud platforms
• 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
• Developing Infrastructure-as-Code
• Writing microservices on containerization frameworks such as Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos
• Resolving complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance
• 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

Benefits

• Medical Care
• Life Insurance
• Retirement Savings
• Employee Assistance Programs
• With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year

Proven professional work experience with Python. In-depth understanding of OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and concurrencyExperience with Agile development methodology and Test Driven DevelopmentExperience maintaining monitoring platforms like GrafanaCI/CD experience with tools like Jenkins, and Travis CIConfiguration management with open-source tools, ideally Puppet, Chef, Salt, or AnsibleStrong understanding of fundamental network technologies like DNS, Load Balancing, SSL, TCP/IP, SQL, HTTP, Switches, RoutersSolid understanding of configuring, deploying, managing, and maintaining large cloud-hosted systemsEmbrace a culture and work environment that promotes diversity and inclusionExperience with container and orchestration systems like Kubernetes, Docker, etcA continuous learner, a critical thinker, and a team player with excellent communication skillsImplementation experience of large infrastructure projectsExperience with infrastructure automation tools like Splunk, Puppet, Spinnaker, Terraform, git, etcUse of AI assisted development tools to automate DNS and infrastructure managementPublic cloud engineering on GCP, AWS, and or Azure platforms. Cloud provisioning, infrastructure, and migration at cloud scaleIn-depth, hands-on experience with Linux Systems Administration and Troubleshooting, servers, and Cloud architecture. Good knowledge of Linux internalsMinimum of 5+ years of backend software development experience (Python) working with Cloud ArchitectureExperience using AWS Route 53Working in high-availability, 24x7x365 large-scale multi-datacenter environmentHighly skilled in packet analysis, network analysis tools, troubleshooting, and analytical fault diagnosisSecurity hardening of network infrastructure, such as DNSSEC