GovCloud Backend Engineer - AI-Driven Cloud

Salesforce

Bellevue (WA)

On-site

USD 117,000 - 177,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Software Engineer for GovCloud who will build and operate a large-scale distributed system in a secure GovCloud environment. You'll work on concurrency, data management, and high-availability back-end services with an AI-first approach, leveraging tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, and AI assistants.

The role requires a technical degree, 3+ years of backend experience, and a passion for reliable, scalable software.

Qualifications

A related technical degree is required.
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Responsibilities

Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on our public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba.
Design, develop, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems across thousands of compute nodes in data centers.
Build production-grade software using modern engineering practices with AI as a core part of development workflow.
Use and contribute to open source tech (Spinnaker, Zookeeper, etc.).
Develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform.
Write microservices on Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos.
Design complex systems where AI agents integrate into human workflows at scale.
Maintain the shared system context documenting designs, constraints, and standards for AI reliability.
Critically evaluate code (human or AI) for correctness, quality, security, and performance.
Resolve complex technical issues and drive innovations to improve availability and resilience.
Balance live-site management with feature delivery and technical debt retirement.
Participate in on-call rotation to keep services operating.