Senior Cloud Reliability Engineer — AI-Powered IaC

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

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. seeks an experienced Software Engineering SMTS to design and deliver scalable cloud reliability solutions.

You will build infrastructure vending machines and reusable IaC modules to provision governed, multi-account AWS environments quickly, and you will own the platform like a product with a strong emphasis on automation and security. You will work across platform teams to implement guardrails, AI-assisted tooling, and active-active resilience, delivering value through

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Software Engineering, SRE, or Platform Engineering in large-scale AWS environments.
• Expert-level Terraform: state at scale, module decoupling, continuous IaC delivery.
• Strong Python or Go for custom tooling and AWS SDK integrations.
• Deep AWS core services: IAM, VPC, Cloud WAN, EKS/ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB - multi-region active-active DR.
• GitOps-driven deployments with automated guardrails baked into enterprise pipelines.
• Active practitioner of AI-assisted development (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini or equivalent) as daily workflow.

Responsibilities

• AWS Infrastructure Vending Machine: Own AFT as Terraform Enterprise SME; automate multi-region, multi-account provisioning via AWS Organizations and Control Tower.
• Enterprise Golden Modules: Author, test, and version-control a library of secure, pre-approved Terraform modules; translate compliance requirements into Sentinel/SCP policies.
• CI/CD & Guardrail Integration: Embed automated security scanning, Policy-as-Code enforcement, and cost guardrails directly into developer PRs - leveraging AI to surface risk and remediation.
• Resilience & Active-Active Delivery: Implement automated failover across AZs and regions using Cloud WAN, ARC, and FIS; lead Game Days simulating catastrophic failure.
• Agentic ChatOps & Slack Integration: Wire provisioning pipelines and AI agents into Slack for real-time intelligence, ChatOps control, and zero-touch operations.
• AI-Augmented IaC: Use AI coding assistants as primary tools to author, review, and validate infrastructure code at speed.
• Observability Platform: Build centralized logging, metrics, and tracing; define and enforce SLOs/SLIs.
• SRE Advisory: Advise internal teams on observability best practices, alerting strategies, and resilience architecture.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Terraform expert

Python or Go

AWS core services

GitOps

AI-assisted development

Tools

Terraform

Sentinel/SCP policies

AWS SDK

Cloud WAN

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. seeks an experienced Software Engineering SMTS to design and deliver scalable cloud reliability solutions.

You will build infrastructure vending machines and reusable IaC modules to provision governed, multi-account AWS environments quickly, and you will own the platform like a product with a strong emphasis on automation and security. You will work across platform teams to implement guardrails, AI-assisted tooling, and active-active resilience, delivering value through