AI-First Cloud Backend Engineer — GovCloud

salesforce.com, inc.; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Software Engineer for GovCloud to help build and operate a highly available back-end platform. You will work on concurrency‑heavy distributed systems that serve millions of users and customers, with a strong emphasis on secure, scalable infrastructure and AI-driven tooling.

The role requires deep backend expertise, knowledge of Java/Golang/Python/Ruby, and experience with cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, and Docker.

Qualifications

• 3+ years backend software development experience.
• Deep knowledge of programming in Java, Golang, Python, or Ruby.
• 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.
• Experience with distributed database system and relational databases like postgres is a plus.
• A demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering.
• Experience using AI tools in development workflows.
• Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to write precise, structured prompts.

Responsibilities

• 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 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 balance 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.

Skills

Backend development

Java

Golang

Python

Ruby

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Agile methodologies

Test Driven Development

AI-first engineering

AI tools

Education

Related technical degree

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

PostgreSQL

GitHub Copilot

Claude/AI tools

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Software Engineer for GovCloud to help build and operate a highly available back-end platform. You will work on concurrency‑heavy distributed systems that serve millions of users and customers, with a strong emphasis on secure, scalable infrastructure and AI-driven tooling.

The role requires deep backend expertise, knowledge of Java/Golang/Python/Ruby, and experience with cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, and Docker.