Senior GovCloud Distributed Systems Engineer

salesforce.com, inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 246,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to help scale a large distributed systems platform. You will design and implement resilient services, drive AI-enhanced development, and contribute to core back-end architectures across multiple data centers.

Deep experience with Java, Golang, Python, or Ruby is required along with a strong background in Agile and TDD. Expect to work on Kubernetes, Terraform, and AI tooling in a fast-paced public cloud environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend software development experience.
• Deep knowledge of 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 system and relational databases like postgres is a plus.
• A demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering. Using AI to move faster, build fluency across the stack, and contribute well beyond your core specialty.
• Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, etc.) in development workflows.
• Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to write precise, structured prompts and cultivate the system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production-ready.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, 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 workflow.
• Use and contribute to open source technology (Spinnaker, Zookeeper, etc.).
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform.
• Write microservices on Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos.
• Architect systems where AI agents integrate into human workflows at scale.
• Contribute to building and maintaining the shared system context of designs and standards.
• Critically evaluate code for correctness, quality, security, and performance.
• Resolve complex technical issues and drive innovations for availability and resilience.
• Balance live-site management, feature delivery, and debt retirement.
• Participate in on-call rotation.

Skills

Backend development

Java

Golang

Python

Ruby

Distributed systems

AI tools experience

Agile

Test Driven Development

Monitoring & logging

PostgreSQL

High availability mindset

AI-first engineering

Education

Related technical degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Spinnaker

Zookeeper

OpenAI API

Cursor

Windsurf

Claude

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to help scale a large distributed systems platform. You will design and implement resilient services, drive AI-enhanced development, and contribute to core back-end architectures across multiple data centers.

Deep experience with Java, Golang, Python, or Ruby is required along with a strong background in Agile and TDD. Expect to work on Kubernetes, Terraform, and AI tooling in a fast-paced public cloud environment.