Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - AI-Driven Infra

Engg; Bellevue, Washington (WA, Washington County); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join Infrastructure Engineering / Monitoring Cloud across Bellevue/Seattle/SF/Palo Alto. You will design and implement automation, manage IaC with Terraform and Kubernetes, and drive AI-assisted improvements for monitoring stacks.

You will own lifecycle upgrades, productize components like Grafana and Terraform providers, and operate in air-gapped environments while maintaining strict on-call practices and security standards in a high-scale

Qualifications

• 5+ years proven track record in distributed systems, API platforms, infrastructure engineering, observability or DevOps at scale.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes (K8s) and Terraform.
• Hands-on experience managing infrastructure in AWS and/or GCP.
• Proficiency in programming languages (e.g., Java, Python).
• Experience managing or extending monitoring tools (Grafana), messaging systems (Kafka), Elasticsearch, caching frameworks.
• Security-first: understanding of authN/authZ security protocols in isolated or restricted networks.
• AI-assisted development fluency: demonstrated use of AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code) as part of a daily engineering workflow.

Responsibilities

• 1. Design and implement automation frameworks using Terraform and Kubernetes to manage monitoring infrastructure.
• 2. Standardize deployments across AWS and GCP with AI-assisted tooling.
• 3. Own the lifecycle of the Monitoring Cloud stack, including upgrades and performance tuning.
• 4. Productize core components (Grafana, Terraform providers) as reliable services for internal teams.
• 5. Deploy and operate the monitoring stack in air-gapped environments.
• 6. Participate in on-call rotations and perform RCA with a customer-first mindset, using AI to assist in incident response.
• 7. Design and deliver AI-driven platform features and contribute to the AI development playbook.

Skills

Distributed systems

API platforms

Infrastructure Engineering

Observability

DevOps

Kubernetes

AI-assisted development

Security

Java

Python

Grafana

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Grafana

AWS

GCP

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join Infrastructure Engineering / Monitoring Cloud across Bellevue/Seattle/SF/Palo Alto. You will design and implement automation, manage IaC with Terraform and Kubernetes, and drive AI-assisted improvements for monitoring stacks.

You will own lifecycle upgrades, productize components like Grafana and Terraform providers, and operate in air-gapped environments while maintaining strict on-call practices and security standards in a high-scale