Senior Cloud Infra & DNS Engineer (Distributed Systems)

Salesforce; Washington; On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking an experienced backend engineer to build and optimize large-scale cloud infrastructure and distributed systems. You will develop Python-based services, implement infrastructure as code, and work with Kubernetes, Docker, and various CI/CD tools across data centers.

Responsibilities include designing resilient systems, addressing real-world data management challenges, and participating in on-call rotations to maintain high availability.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5+ years of backend software development experience (Python) working with Cloud Architecture.
• Hands-on experience with Linux administration and troubleshooting; strong Linux internals knowledge.
• Solid Python experience; strong OOP, design patterns, data structures and concurrency understanding.
• Experience with public cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) including provisioning and migration at cloud scale.
• Familiarity with infrastructure automation and AI-assisted tooling for DNS and infra management.
• Experience with containerization/orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Knowledge of network tech (DNS, load balancers, TCP/IP, HTTP).
• CI/CD experience (Jenkins, Travis CI) and agile development practices.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on public cloud platforms.
• Design, develop, debug, and operate resilient distributed systems across data centers.
• Write microservices on containerization frameworks; develop IaC.
• Resolve complex technical issues to improve availability, resilience, and performance.
• Participate in on-call rotations to address real-time issues and keep services up.

Skills

Backend development

Python

Cloud Architecture

Linux systems

OOP & design patterns

Concurrency

Communication skills

Agile

Test driven development

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Mesos

Terraform

Puppet

Spinnaker

Git

Grafana

Splunk

Jenkins

Travis CI

Ansible

Job description

Salesforce is seeking an experienced backend engineer to build and optimize large-scale cloud infrastructure and distributed systems. You will develop Python-based services, implement infrastructure as code, and work with Kubernetes, Docker, and various CI/CD tools across data centers.

Responsibilities include designing resilient systems, addressing real-world data management challenges, and participating in on-call rotations to maintain high availability.