GovCloud Distributed Systems Software Engineer

100 Salesforce, Inc.; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 246,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Employee stock purchase program

Parental leave

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a senior backend software engineer to contribute to large-scale distributed systems across multiple data centers. You will design, implement, and operate resilient services, with a strong AI-first approach and exposure to modern tooling (Kubernetes, Terraform, Spinnaker).

Requirements include 5+ years of backend development in Java, Go, Python, or Ruby, and experience with Agile and TD development.

Qualifications

• A related technical degree is required or equivalent.
• 5+ years backend software development experience with strong fundamentals.
• Deep knowledge of Java, Golang, Python, or Ruby.
• Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a critical service.
• Experience with Agile development and Test Driven Development.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting applications.
• Experience with distributed databases and PostgreSQL is a plus.
• Demonstrated AI-first approach to engineering and using AI tools in workflows.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools and frameworks across public clouds.
• Design, develop, debug, and operate resilient distributed systems.
• Build production-grade software with AI-driven development workflows.
• Use and contribute to open source technologies like Spinnaker and Zookeeper.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform.
• Write microservices on Kubernetes, Docker, and related platforms.
• Architect complex systems where AI agents integrate into human workflows.
• Contribute to system context repository for designs and standards.
• Critically evaluate code for correctness, security, and performance.
• Resolve complex issues to improve availability and resilience.

Skills

Java

Golang

Python

Ruby

Agile development

Test Driven Development

Monitoring

Logging

Distributed systems

AI tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Spinnaker

Zookeeper

PostgreSQL

OpenAI API

Education

Related technical degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Spinnaker

Zookeeper

PostgreSQL

OpenAI API

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Job Category Software Engineering

Job Details

About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we’re looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce’s core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. Our Public Cloud engineering teams are responsible for innovating and maintaining a large scale distributed systems engineering platform that ships hundreds of features to production for tens of millions of users across all industries every day. Our users count on our platform to be highly reliable, lightning fast, supremely secure, and to preserve all of their customizations and integrations every time we ship.

Your Impact

• 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 (Cursor, Windsurf, Claude, OpenAI API) 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.

Required Skills

• A related technical degree required
• 5+ 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. Using AI to move faster, build fluency across the stack, and contribute well beyond your core specialty.
• Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, etc.) in development workflows
• Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to write precise, structured prompts and cultivate the system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production-ready.

Unleash Your Potential When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love.

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Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

The typical base salary range for this position is $148,500 - $223,900 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $178,900 - $246,000 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.

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