Senior Cloud-Native Ingress Gateway Engineer

salesforce; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a distributed-systems software engineer to design and implement a scalable Ingress Gateway platform, delivering L4/L7 load balancing, TLS termination, and end-to-end security. You will own substantial portions of the next-gen control and data planes, transforming toward cloud-native primitives and contributing to OSS projects like Envoy and Istio.

The role emphasizes service ownership, operating at scale across data centers, with an opportunity to influence live-site

Qualifications

• Experience owning reliable/self-healing services.
• Familiar with public cloud, particularly AWS and GCP.
• Good knowledge of network technologies (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS termination, HTTP proxies).
• Experience balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and technical debt retirement.
• Experience designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the next-generation Ingress Gateway control and data planes.
• Contribute to cloud-native primitives and OSS projects (Envoy, Istio, etc.).

Skills

Service ownership

Cloud: AWS

Cloud: GCP

Networking: TCP/IP

Live-site management

Distributed systems

Tools

Envoy

Istio

NGINX

Kubernetes

Helm charts

Spinnaker

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a distributed-systems software engineer to design and implement a scalable Ingress Gateway platform, delivering L4/L7 load balancing, TLS termination, and end-to-end security. You will own substantial portions of the next-gen control and data planes, transforming toward cloud-native primitives and contributing to OSS projects like Envoy and Istio.

The role emphasizes service ownership, operating at scale across data centers, with an opportunity to influence live-site