Senior Cloud Backend Engineer – Distributed Systems

Salesforce; Bellevue (KY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Care

Life Insurance

Retirement Savings

Employee Assistance Programs

13 paid days off

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a senior backend engineer to design, develop, and operate large-scale distributed systems on our public cloud platforms. You will build reliability, performance, and security into core services used by millions of users across industries.

Responsibilities include designing, debugging, and operating resilient back-end systems, implementing infrastructure-as-code, and contributing to open-source tooling.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong Python proficiency and object-oriented design skills.
• Experience with concurrency, data management, and high availability designs.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate resilient distributed systems across data centers.
• Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, and validation platforms.

Skills

Python

Concurrency

Distributed systems

Data structures and algorithms

OOP

Design patterns

Cloud architecture

Linux

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Docker

Mesos

Networking fundamentals

Terraform

Puppet/Ansible

Grafana

Jenkins/Travis CI

Splunk

Spinnaker

Git

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Mesos

Grafana

Jenkins

Travis CI

Puppet

Chef

Salt

Ansible

Terraform

Git

Spinnaker

Splunk

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a senior backend engineer to design, develop, and operate large-scale distributed systems on our public cloud platforms. You will build reliability, performance, and security into core services used by millions of users across industries.

Responsibilities include designing, debugging, and operating resilient back-end systems, implementing infrastructure-as-code, and contributing to open-source tooling.