Senior Lead Backend Engineer, Distributed Cloud SaaS

100 Salesforce, Inc.

San Francisco (CA)

Hybrid

USD 173,000 - 260,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Job summary

Salesforce, headquartered in San Francisco, seeks a Lead Software Engineer to design and implement high‑quality, production‑grade code for a multi‑tenant cloud distributed filesystem. You will mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and help shape the technical roadmap across cross‑functional teams.

This role emphasizes systems design, scalability, and reliability in a hybrid work environment, using Java and Python on AWS/Azure/GCP to deliver scalable SAAS components for millions of users.

Qualifications

Mastery in systems design and distributed architectures.
Deep knowledge of distributed filesystems (on‑prem and cloud).
Experience with SAAS products over public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Responsibilities

Research, design, and develop computer and network software or utilities.
Lead, mentor, and collaborate with the team; perform code reviews and plan releases.
Ensure system scalability, robustness, and high availability through architecture decisions.
Drive on-call rotation and incident response for services you own.
Create and maintain technical documentation for engineers and stakeholders.

Skills

Systems design

Distributed filesystems

Java

Python

Cloud platforms

SAAS / multi-tenant

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

Job description

This role emphasizes systems design, scalability, and reliability in a hybrid work environment, using Java and Python on AWS/Azure/GCP to deliver scalable SAAS components for millions of users.

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