Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - Public Cloud

salesforce.com, inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous health and wellness benefits

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

401(k) with company matching

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

salesforce.com, inc. is looking for a Distributed Systems Software Engineer (Senior/Lead/Principal) to innovate cloud solutions and maintain a robust distributed systems platform. Responsibilities include designing resilient systems, automating cloud infrastructure, and utilizing AI tools to enhance software development. Candidates should have 3+ years in back-end software development, experience with Java, Go, Python, or Ruby, and knowledge of modern engineering practices. Generous health benefits included.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of back-end software development experience.
• Deep knowledge of programming in Java, Go, Python or Ruby.
• Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a critical service.
• Experience with AI tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, and Cursor.
• Experience with distributed database systems.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools and frameworks on AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba.
• Design, develop, debug, and operate resilient distributed systems across compute nodes.
• Contribute to open-source technologies such as Spinnaker and Zookeeper.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code using Terraform.
• Write microservices on container platforms.

Skills

Java

Go

Python

Ruby

Agile development methodology

Test-Driven Development

AI tools

prompt engineering

distributed systems

Terraform

Education

Technical degree

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

Docker

Mesos

PostgreSQL

Job description

salesforce.com, inc. is looking for a Distributed Systems Software Engineer (Senior/Lead/Principal) to innovate cloud solutions and maintain a robust distributed systems platform. Responsibilities include designing resilient systems, automating cloud infrastructure, and utilizing AI tools to enhance software development. Candidates should have 3+ years in back-end software development, experience with Java, Go, Python, or Ruby, and knowledge of modern engineering practices. Generous health benefits included.