GovCloud Backend Engineer for AI-Powered Cloud Platform

salesforce.com, inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Software Engineer for GovCloud to join our Public Cloud engineering teams building a large-scale, highly available backend platform used by millions of users across industries.

You will craft concurrency-friendly services with Java, Golang, Python or Ruby, design AI-enabled workflows, and own critical microservices from design through production, ensuring security, reliability, and performance in regulated environments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years backend software development experience.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Java, Golang, Python, or Ruby.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools and validation platforms.
• Design, develop, debug, and operate distributed systems across data centers.
• Build production-grade software with AI tooling to improve development workflows.
• Contribute to open source technology usage.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform.
• Write microservices on Kubernetes and Docker.
• Evaluate code for correctness, security, and performance.

Skills

Java

Golang

Python

Ruby

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

AI tools

Prompt engineering

Agile

TDD

PostgreSQL

Monitoring

Education

Related technical degree

Tools

Spinnaker

Zookeeper

Terraform

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Software Engineer for GovCloud to join our Public Cloud engineering teams building a large-scale, highly available backend platform used by millions of users across industries.

You will craft concurrency-friendly services with Java, Golang, Python or Ruby, design AI-enabled workflows, and own critical microservices from design through production, ensuring security, reliability, and performance in regulated environments.