Senior GovCloud Distributed Systems Engineer

Salesforce; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 246,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking an experienced backend software engineer to help deliver AI-driven cloud infrastructure at scale. You will design, implement, and operate distributed systems across multiple data centers, building production-grade services with modern practices and AI-enabled tooling.

You will balance live-site management with feature delivery, participate in on-call rotations, and strive for high reliability, security, and performance across our public cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• A related technical degree is required.
• 5+ years backend software development experience.
• Deep knowledge of programming in Java, Golang, Python, or Ruby.
• Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a critical service.
• Experience with Agile development methodology and Test Driven Development.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting applications.
• Experience with distributed databases such as PostgreSQL is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on public clouds like AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba.
• Design, develop, debug, and operate resilient distributed systems across data centers.
• Build and ship production-grade software using modern engineering practices with AI as a core part of development workflows.
• Write microservices on containerization frameworks such as Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos.
• Critically evaluate code (Human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance.
• Participate in on-call rotation to keep services operational and highly available.

Skills

Backend development

Java

Golang

Python

Ruby

Agile methodologies

Test Driven Development

Monitoring & logging

Distributed databases

PostgreSQL

AI-first engineering

AI tools (Claude, Copilot)

OpenAI API

Education

Related technical degree

Tools

Spinnaker

Zookeeper

Kubernetes

Docker

Mesos

Terraform

Job description

Salesforce is seeking an experienced backend software engineer to help deliver AI-driven cloud infrastructure at scale. You will design, implement, and operate distributed systems across multiple data centers, building production-grade services with modern practices and AI-enabled tooling.

You will balance live-site management with feature delivery, participate in on-call rotations, and strive for high reliability, security, and performance across our public cloud platforms.