GovCloud Backend Engineer — AI-Driven Cloud Scale

Groupe Kardol; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 117,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is hiring a Software Engineer for GovCloud to join Public Cloud engineering. You will build and maintain a large-scale, AI-integrated backend platform used by millions of users across government-related workloads.

Expect concurrency, reliability, and secure design across distributed systems and modern tooling. The role emphasizes pioneering AI-first engineering practices, on-call rotations, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software with strong

Qualifications

• A related technical degree required.
• 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 genuine AI-first approach to engineering and using AI to move faster.
• Experience using AI tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, etc.).
• Advanced prompt engineering skills for reliable, secure AI outputs.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools and validation platforms.
• Design, develop, and operate resilient distributed systems across data centers.
• Build high-quality production software with AI as a core part of development workflow.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform.
• Write microservices on Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos.
• Ensure security, performance, and reliability of services.

Skills

Backend development

Java

Golang

Python

Ruby

Agile development

Test Driven Development

Distributed systems

AI-first engineering

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's or related technical degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Spinnaker

Zookeeper

Terraform

OpenAI API

Cursor

Windsurf

Claude

Job description

Salesforce is hiring a Software Engineer for GovCloud to join Public Cloud engineering. You will build and maintain a large-scale, AI-integrated backend platform used by millions of users across government-related workloads.

Expect concurrency, reliability, and secure design across distributed systems and modern tooling. The role emphasizes pioneering AI-first engineering practices, on-call rotations, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software with strong