Cloud DNS & Infrastructure Engineer

Salesforce; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a backend software engineer with strong Python experience to design, build, and maintain cloud-scale distributed systems across multiple data centers. You will work on infrastructure automation, container orchestration, and open source tooling to ensure high availability and performance.

The role requires Linux expertise, cloud proficiency (GCP/AWS/Azure), and a solid foundation in algorithms, data structures, and concurrency.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of backend software development experience (Python) working with Cloud Architecture.
• In-depth, hands-on experience with Linux Systems Administration and Troubleshooting, servers, and Cloud architecture. Good knowledge of Linux internals.
• Proven professional work experience with Python. In-depth understanding of OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and concurrency.
• Public cloud engineering on GCP, AWS, and or Azure platforms. Cloud provisioning, infrastructure, and migration at cloud scale.
• Use of AI assisted development tools to automate DNS and infrastructure management.
• Solid understanding of configuring, deploying, managing, and maintaining large cloud-hosted systems.
• Experience with container and orchestration systems like Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools like Splunk, Puppet, Spinnaker, Terraform, git, etc.
• Strong understanding of fundamental network technologies like DNS, Load Balancing, SSL, TCP/IP, SQL, HTTP, Switches, Routers.
• CI/CD experience with tools like Jenkins, and Travis CI.
• Implementation experience of large infrastructure projects.
• A continuous learner, a critical thinker, and a team player with excellent communication skills.
• Embrace a culture and work environment that promotes diversity and inclusion.
• Configuration management with open‑source tools, ideally Puppet, Chef, Salt, or Ansible.
• Experience maintaining monitoring platforms like Grafana.
• Experience with Agile development methodology and Test Driven Development

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Python

Linux

OOP

Data structures

Concurrency

Cloud Architecture

CI/CD

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Mesos

Splunk

Puppet

Spinnaker

Terraform

Git

Grafana

Jenkins

Travis CI

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a backend software engineer with strong Python experience to design, build, and maintain cloud-scale distributed systems across multiple data centers. You will work on infrastructure automation, container orchestration, and open source tooling to ensure high availability and performance.

The role requires Linux expertise, cloud proficiency (GCP/AWS/Azure), and a solid foundation in algorithms, data structures, and concurrency.