Senior DNS & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Salesforce; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 149,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a seasoned Public Cloud/Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate a large-scale distributed systems platform. You will work on automation tools, Infrastructure‑as‑Code, and microservices across data centers, leveraging Kubernetes and Docker in cloud environments to ensure high availability and performance.

You are a strong communicator with 5+ years in Python, Linux admin, and cloud architecture, familiar with OOP, design patterns, and agile methodologies.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5+ years of backend software development experience (Python) working with Cloud Architecture.
• In-depth, hands-on experience with Linux Systems Administration and Troubleshooting, servers, and Cloud architecture.
• Proven professional work experience with Python. In-depth understanding of OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and concurrency.
• Public cloud engineering on GCP, AWS, and/or Azure platforms. Cloud provisioning, infrastructure, and migration at cloud scale.
• Use of AI assisted development tools to automate DNS and infrastructure management.
• Solid understanding of configuring, deploying, managing, and maintaining large cloud-hosted systems.
• Experience with container and orchestration systems like Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools like Splunk, Puppet, Spinnaker, Terraform, git, etc.
• Strong understanding of fundamental network technologies like DNS, Load Balancing, SSL, TCP/IP, SQL, HTTP.
• CI/CD experience with tools like Jenkins, and Travis CI.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on our public cloud platforms
• Designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers
• Using and contributing to open source technology
• Developing Infrastructure-as-Code
• Writing microservices on containerization frameworks such as Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos
• Resolving complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance
• Balancing 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

Cloud Architecture

OOP & Design Patterns

Concurrency

CI/CD

Agile

Test Driven Development

Networking fundamentals

Security in cloud

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Mesos

Terraform

Puppet

Spinnaker

Grafana

Git

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a seasoned Public Cloud/Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate a large-scale distributed systems platform. You will work on automation tools, Infrastructure‑as‑Code, and microservices across data centers, leveraging Kubernetes and Docker in cloud environments to ensure high availability and performance.

You are a strong communicator with 5+ years in Python, Linux admin, and cloud architecture, familiar with OOP, design patterns, and agile methodologies.