Senior/Lead Distributed Systems Software Engineer (GovCloud)

Salesforce, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Care

Life Insurance

Retirement Savings

Employee Assistance Programs

13 paid days off

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking an experienced backend software engineer to design, develop, and operate large-scale distributed systems. You will build cloud infrastructure automation tools, contribute to core backend services, and work across public clouds including AWS, GCP, Azure, and more.

The role emphasizes reliability, performance, and live-site readiness. You should have 5+ years of backend development experience, strong knowledge of concurrency, and hands-on experience with Kubernetes,

Qualifications

• Deep experience with concurrency and large-scale distributed systems.
• Proficiency in designing, developing, and operating core back-end services.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and Test Driven Development.
• Experience with distributed databases and relational databases like PostgreSQL is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, debug, and operate resilient distributed systems across data centers.
• Build cloud infrastructure automation tools and workflows on public cloud platforms.
• Write microservices using containerization frameworks like Kubernetes and Docker.
• Participate in on-call rotations to keep services available and performant.

Skills

Concurrency

Large-scale systems

Agile development

Test Driven Development

Distributed systems design

Education

Related technical degree

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Mesos

Job description

• Our Public Cloud engineering teams are responsible for innovating and maintaining a large scale distributed systems engineering platform that ships hundreds of features to production for tens of millions of users across all industries every day
• Our users count on our platform to be highly reliable, lightning fast, supremely secure, and to preserve all of their customizations and integrations every time we ship
• 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
• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Medical Care
• Life Insurance
• Retirement Savings
• Employee Assistance Programs
• With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year

You will need deep experience with concurrency, large scale systems, proficiency with solving real-world data management challenges, a strong understanding of how to craft solutions that are highly available, and a proven ability to design, develop, and optimize the core back-end systemsExperience with Agile development methodology and Test Driven DevelopmentA related technical degree requiredExperience with critical infrastructure services including, monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting applications5+ years backend software development experienceExperience with distributed database system and relational databases like postgres is a plusDeep knowledge of programming in Java, Golang, Python, or RubyExperience owning and operating multiple instances of a critical service