Senior GovCloud Distributed Systems Engineer

100 Salesforce, Inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce in Bellevue, WA is seeking a Senior/Lead Distributed Systems Software Engineer for GovCloud to own and evolve a large-scale backend platform used by federal, state, and local customers.

You will design, develop, and optimize highly available services across thousands of nodes, apply AI-first engineering, and ensure security, reliability, and performance, while mentoring teams and driving best practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend software development experience.
• Proficiency in Java, Golang, Python, or Ruby.
• Experience with distributed systems and high availability.
• Familiarity with AI tooling in development workflows.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools on public clouds.
• Design, develop, debug, and operate distributed systems across data centers.
• Build production-grade software with modern engineering practices and AI tooling.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform.
• Write microservices on Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos.
• Critically evaluate code for correctness, security, and performance.

Skills

Java

Golang

Python

Ruby

Distributed systems

AI-first engineering

Agile

TDD

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Education

Related technical degree

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Mesos

Spinnaker

Zookeeper

Job description

Salesforce in Bellevue, WA is seeking a Senior/Lead Distributed Systems Software Engineer for GovCloud to own and evolve a large-scale backend platform used by federal, state, and local customers.

You will design, develop, and optimize highly available services across thousands of nodes, apply AI-first engineering, and ensure security, reliability, and performance, while mentoring teams and driving best practices.