Senior GovCloud Distributed Systems Engineer

salesforce.com, inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Distributed Systems Software Engineer for GovCloud to help design and operate large-scale, highly available back-end systems. You will balance live-site management with feature delivery and aging technical debt, while leveraging AI-driven tooling and modern cloud practices.

The role requires deep experience in distributed systems, high-scale workloads, and strong coding skills in Java, Golang, Python, or Ruby. This is a senior/lead position in the GovCloud space.

Qualifications

• 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 critical infrastructure services including monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting applications.
• Experience with distributed database systems and relational databases like Postgres (a plus).
• Advanced prompt engineering skills and ability to write precise prompts for AI-enabled systems.
• Experience using AI tools (Claude, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor) in development workflows.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on our public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba.
• Designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers.
• Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow by pushing the boundaries of AI development tools to deliver secure, optimized, and high-quality code.
• Using and contributing to open source technology (Spinnaker, Zookeeper, etc.).
• Developing Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform.
• Writing microservices on containerization frameworks such as Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos.
• Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale.
• Contribute to building and maintaining the shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably.
• Critically evaluate code (Human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance.
• Resolving complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance.
• Eat, sleep, and breathe services. You have experience 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

Java

Golang

Python

Ruby

Education

Related technical degree

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Mesos

Spinnaker

Zookeeper

OpenAI API

Cursor

Windsurf

Claude

GitHub Copilot

Codex

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Distributed Systems Software Engineer for GovCloud to help design and operate large-scale, highly available back-end systems. You will balance live-site management with feature delivery and aging technical debt, while leveraging AI-driven tooling and modern cloud practices.

The role requires deep experience in distributed systems, high-scale workloads, and strong coding skills in Java, Golang, Python, or Ruby. This is a senior/lead position in the GovCloud space.