Senior Cloud Infra Engineer: Python & Kubernetes

100 Salesforce, Inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Public Cloud Engineering teams. You will design, build, and operate large-scale distributed systems, focusing on reliability, security, and performance across multi-datacenter deployments.

You should have 5+ years of backend experience with Python, strong Linux administration skills, and deep knowledge of cloud architecture and concurrency. Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and CI/CD is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5+ years of backend software development experience (Python) working with Cloud Architecture.
• Experience with Linux Systems Administration and Troubleshooting, servers, and Cloud architecture.
• In-depth understanding of OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and concurrency.
• Public cloud engineering on GCP, AWS, and/or Azure platforms.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on our public cloud platforms.
• Design, develop, debug, and operate resilient distributed systems across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code and write microservices on containerization frameworks such as Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos.
• Resolve complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance.
• Balance live-site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt.
• Participate in the team\'s on-call rotation to address complex problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available.

Skills

Python

Linux administration

Cloud architecture

Concurrency

Data structures

Networking basics

CI/CD

Git

Agile methodologies

TDD

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Spinnaker

Puppet

Ansible

Grafana

Splunk

Jenkins

Travis CI

Git

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Public Cloud Engineering teams. You will design, build, and operate large-scale distributed systems, focusing on reliability, security, and performance across multi-datacenter deployments.

You should have 5+ years of backend experience with Python, strong Linux administration skills, and deep knowledge of cloud architecture and concurrency. Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and CI/CD is highly valued.