Software Engineer (GovCloud)

Salesforce, Inc.; Ashington; Presencial; GBP 90.000 - 130.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical Care

Life Insurance

Retirement Savings

Employee Assistance Programs

13 paid holidays

Descripción de la vacante

Salesforce, Inc. seeks a seasoned backend software engineer to design, build and operate highly available distributed systems powering AI-enabled cloud services. You will own critical services, implement robust APIs and contribute to scalable infrastructure.

You must have 3+ years backend experience, deep knowledge of Java/Golang/Python/Ruby, and strong prompt engineering. Agile and TDD experience are required in a fast‑moving, security-minded environment.

Formación

• 3+ years backend software development experience.
• Advanced prompt engineering skills.
• Deep knowledge of Java, Golang, Python, or Ruby.

Responsabilidades

• Design, develop, and operate resilient distributed systems at scale.
• Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code and containerized services (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Contribute to AI-enabled cloud platforms and tooling (Cursor, Windsurf, Claude, OpenAI API).
• Participate in on-call rotations and drive live-site reliability improvements.

Conocimientos

Backend development

Prompt engineering

Java/Golang/Python/Ruby

Agile & TDD

Distributed systems

PostgreSQL

CI/CD/DevOps

Educación

Related technical degree

Herramientas

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Spinnaker

Descripción del empleo

• Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we’re looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce’s core values at the heart of it all
• Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce
• 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 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
• Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow by pushing the boundaries of AI development tools (Cursor, Windsurf, Claude, OpenAI API) to deliver secure, optimized, and high-quality code
• 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
• Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale
• Contribute to building and maintaining the shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably
• Critically evaluate code (Human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance
• 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

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

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen operating on U.S. Soil with 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 requirement 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
• This role requires advanced prompt engineering skills — the ability to write precise, structured prompts and cultivate the system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production-ready
• Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, etc.) in development workflows
• Experience with distributed database system and relational databases like postgres is a plus
• 3+ years backend software development experience
• Experience with Agile development methodology and Test Driven Development
• A related technical degree required
• Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a critical service
• A demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering. Using AI to move faster, build fluency across the stack, and contribute well beyond your core specialty
• Deep knowledge of programming in Java, Golang, Python, or Ruby
• Experience with critical infrastructure services including, monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting applications
• Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to write precise, structured prompts and cultivate the system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production-ready