Lead Software Engineer- Distributed Systems

Leadout Capital; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a visionary, high-energy backend Java engineer to lead the design, architecture, and deployment of cutting-edge CDN services. You will build real-time analytics and intelligent automation that enable self-healing and self-optimizing operations across clouds and data centers.

Join a high-performance team delivering ultra-resilient distributed systems, live-site excellence, and rapid feature innovation in a multi-cloud environment (GCP/AWS/Azure/Alibaba).

Qualifications

• 10+ years hands-on, battle-tested engineering experience.
• Deep mastery of object-oriented programming with Java.
• Experience with modern database technologies.
• Enthusiasm for Agile development workflows, CI/CD, and comprehensive testing.
• Passion for telemetry and metrics to champion operational excellence.
• Fluency in design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and high-concurrency systems.
• Proven track record engineering top-tier public cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure, Alibaba).
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, Docker, Helios, Fleet, or Mesos.
• Drive to own and operate mission-critical infrastructure services at scale (monitoring, alerting, logging, performance analytics).

Responsibilities

• Lead design, architecture, and deployment of CDN services.
• Build real-time analytics and intelligent automation for self-healing and self-optimizing operations.
• Own and operate mission-critical multi-cloud infrastructure at scale (GCP/AWS/Azure/Alibaba).

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Telemetry/metrics

High concurrency

APIs

Networking

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Helios

Fleet

Mesos

Nginx

Envoy

TCP/IP

CloudFront/CDN tooling

Job description

Salesforce is leading the AI and Agentic revolution as the world's #1 AI CRM — and that incredible momentum demands network infrastructure that's fast, secure, intelligent, and relentlessly reliable. Our Edge CDN team is building a high-powered backbone that seamlessly connects millions of users to our platform, powering next-generation autonomous AI agents across clouds, data centers, and continents. As our platform expands to support fully autonomous, self-healing, and self-optimizing operations with single-click deployments to tens of thousands of global nodes, we're continuously pushing the limits of global scale and performance to deliver exceptional user experiences.

We are seeking a visionary, high-energy backend Java engineer to lead the design, architecture, and deployment of cutting-edge CDN services. You'll build real-time analytics and intelligent automation that enable our systems to self-heal and self-optimize in real time — ensuring complex, agentic AI-driven workflows execute seamlessly at scale.

If you get energized by building ultra-resilient distributed systems, driving live-site excellence alongside rapid feature innovation, and running mission-critical multi-cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS/Azure/Alibaba) for the AI era — we want you on our team!

Some attributes of successful candidates

• Proven track record of designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems
• Eat, sleep, and breathe services. You’ll have experience balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt
• Experience with managing large, complex systems in the cloud.
• Resolve complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance
• Passionate about building autonomous, self-healing systems that optimize performance for AI-heavy traffic patterns
• Capable of driving and delivering thin slices of functionality on a regular cadence with data-driven feedback loops in an agile environment
• Be passionate about automation
• Create, maintain and share technical documentation used by engineers and other team members

Required Skills

• 10+ years of hands-on, battle-tested engineering experience
• Deep mastery of object-oriented programming with a strong focus on Java
• Solid, reliable expertise in modern database technologies
• Enthusiasm for Agile development workflows, continuous integration, and comprehensive testing
• Passion for leveraging telemetry and metrics to champion operational excellence
• In-depth fluency in design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and high-concurrency systems
• Proven track record engineering top-tier public cloud platforms across GCP, AWS, Azure, and/or Alibaba
• Hands-on expertise with cutting-edge container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, Docker, Helios, Fleet, or Mesos
• Drive to own and operate mission-critical infrastructure services at scale, including monitoring, alerting, logging, and performance analytics

Preferred Qualifications

• Active contributions or excitement for open-source projects
• Strong background in SOAP/REST APIs and clean, scalable API design
• Solid grasp of core networking protocols and technologies, Nginx, Envoy, TCP/IP, DNS, TLS termination, and HTTP proxies, AWS Cloudfront, Google CDN, Cloudflare, Akamai.
• Familiarity with high-throughput big data stack tools like Spark, Kafka, and Druid
• Experience streamlining robust CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins