Senior / Lead / Principal Software Engineer - Foundations Team (Infrastructure/Platform)

Own Company; California (MO); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Mental health support

Paid parental leave

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k)

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Own Company is seeking a Senior/Lead/Principal Software Engineer to build foundational cloud infrastructure and critical systems for scalable operations. You’ll own architecture decisions, deployment pipelines, and tooling that impact real-time customer interactions.

Join a high-ownership, high-velocity team balancing startup pace with enterprise scale. Strong focus on performance, reliability, and engineering excellence across distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development focusing on backend and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with Go, Python, Typescript, or Ruby.
• Deep cloud architecture experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Proven IaC automation using Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Container orchestration with Kubernetes, ECS, or Docker.
• Strong observability and monitoring with DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK.
• SQL and PostgreSQL familiarity; data warehousing with ClickHouse.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Improve system performance and reduce bottlenecks.
• Evolve CI/CD pipelines across multiple services.
• Manage infrastructure upgrades via IaC.
• Develop and maintain runbooks and architecture diagrams.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence.

Skills

Go

Python

Typescript

Ruby

CI/CD

Observability

Mentoring

Education

B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

CDK

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Kubernetes

Docker

DataDog

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

PostgreSQL

Job description

Description

The Experience

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Join a high-ownership, high-velocity engineering team working at the frontier of AI and modern software development. We operate with the pace of a startup backed by the scale and stability of a global enterprise — with true end-to-end ownership across architecture, implementation, deployment, and continuous improvement.

You'll work alongside a high-talent-density team that cares deeply about performance, reliability, and engineering excellence — driving architecture decisions, solving large-scale distributed systems challenges, and building foundational infrastructure that enables great customer experiences.

As a Software Engineer on the Foundations team, you'll build the infrastructure and critical systems that power our operations — highly scalable cloud infrastructure, robust CI/CD pipelines, advanced observability, and top-tier engineering tools. Your work will increase deployment velocity, raise our quality bar, and support complex, real-time customer interactions.

What You'll Actually Be Doing

• Architect & Build: Lead the design and implementation of secure, fault-tolerant, and highly available cloud infrastructure on public cloud services.
• System Optimization: Continuously improve system performance, identify bottlenecks, and deploy optimizations for smooth operation at scale for highly-trafficked services.
• CI/CD Evolution: Lead the evolution of our Continuous Integration and Deployment pipelines in a multi-service environment, reducing complexity and increasing resilience.
• Infrastructure Management: Plan and execute timely infrastructure upgrades and changes using infrastructure-as-code to enable faster execution, improved scale, and increased cost efficiency.
• Observability: Leverage tools like DataDog, Sentry, and others to monitor system infrastructure, configure alerts for anomalies, and proactively ensure system health.
• Documentation & Standards: Define, promote, and maintain runbooks, operating procedures, and system architecture diagrams. Uphold high standards of quality through rigorous testing and code reviews.
• Mentorship: Act as a force multiplier by providing technical guidance, mentoring other engineers, and fostering a culture of engineering excellence.
• Agility: Embrace a culture of flexibility and efficiency, moving fast to capture opportunities while wearing multiple hats in a startup environment

You're Our Person If...

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in professional software development with a strong emphasis on backend systems, cloud platforms, and infrastructure.
• Languages: Proficiency in programming languages such as Go, Python, Typescript, or Ruby.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Deep experience architecting secure solutions on cloud-based infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proven experience in automated provisioning using tools like Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Containerization: Experience with automated deployments using container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, AWS ECS, or Docker.
• Observability Tools: Strong hands-on experience with monitoring and logging tools such as DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK.
• Database Expertise: Familiarity with SQL, RDBMS (PostgreSQL preferred), and data warehousing solutions (e.g., ClickHouse)
• AI-Assisted Development: Proficiency in AI-assisted software development (e.g., Claude, Cursor, etc.); you are capable of leveraging these tools to significantly accelerate your output from day one.
• Education: B.S. or Master's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.

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In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.