Lead Data Cloud Platform Engineer — Kubernetes & AI/ML

salesforce.com, inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 172,500 - 260,100; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce Data 360 is seeking a Lead Member of Technical Staff to architect and build the next generation of our control plane services, powering workloads that serve millions of customers worldwide. In this role, you'll lead the evolution of our compute platform, designing systems that orchestrate diverse compute workloads including GPU clusters, batch processing, real-time analytics, and AI/ML systems.

You'll work at the intersection of infrastructure, distributed systems, and emerging AI

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in distributed systems.
• Expert-level Kubernetes experience: operators, controllers, scheduling, resource management.
• Production experience running large-scale infrastructure serving mission-critical workloads.

Responsibilities

• Design and build our next-gen Control Plane services.
• Drive architectural decisions on resource isolation, multi-tenancy, and distributed system design.
• Evolve compute infrastructure to support diverse workload patterns: batch processing, streaming, interactive queries, and AI/ML workloads at true petabyte scale.
• Design intelligent job scheduling and orchestration systems to maximize resource utilization.
• Build platform primitives for capacity management, priority-based allocation, and workload isolation.
• Implement custom Kubernetes operators and controllers for specialized workload requirements.
• Develop infrastructure strategies to sustain AI/ML workloads, focusing on GPU management and model deployment.
• Architect sophisticated resource management protocols optimized for varied and complex compute ecosystems.
• Partner with infrastructure engineering teams to establish integration frameworks for advancing AI technologies.
• Lead code reviews, define coding standards, and translate functional requirements into technical requirements.

Skills

Distributed systems

Kubernetes expertise

Go programming

Java programming

Python programming

Rust programming

Leadership

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Spark

Flink

Presto

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Salesforce Data 360 is seeking a Lead Member of Technical Staff to architect and build the next generation of our control plane services, powering workloads that serve millions of customers worldwide. In this role, you'll lead the evolution of our compute platform, designing systems that orchestrate diverse compute workloads including GPU clusters, batch processing, real-time analytics, and AI/ML systems.

You'll work at the intersection of infrastructure, distributed systems, and emerging AI