Senior/Lead Software Engineer, Site Reliability (Agentforce Operations) Salesforce · San Francisco · Site Reliability In listing 2w ago

Devopsroles; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 314,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for the Missionforce Operations. You will design and run infrastructure, automation, and cost‑efficient platform capabilities to enable customers to operate reliably in isolated public‑cloud environments.

You’ll collaborate with product engineers and forward‑deployed teams to deliver reliable systems for mission‑critical public sector workflows and lead architectural improvements across the stack.

Qualifications

• Proven Production Experience: Experience supporting mission‑critical production systems and helping high‑growth products navigate the technical debt and architectural changes required to scale reliably.
• Technical Breadth: Strong proficiency in Kubernetes, Terraform/OpenTofu, and AWS/GCP/Azure.
• Coding Mastery: Ability to write and review production‑level code in Golang, TypeScript, or Python—you view automation as a software engineering problem.
• Systems Expert: Deep understanding of distributed systems, including how to debug complex interactions between microservices, databases, and AI agents.
• Low‑Ego Collaboration: Experience working within a senior team of Principal engineers, capable of leading initiatives and supporting the broader technical vision.
• AI Fluency: Ability to use modern AI development tools to move faster and build more reliable systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability roadmap for major product areas, evolving startup‑speed architectures into highly available, globally scalable systems.
• Partner with engineers to refine our infrastructure strategy and provide senior perspectives on system design and capacity planning.
• Define, maintain and evolve deployment tooling and IaC to enable push‑button, robust releases.
• Support the scaling and deployment of AI/ML infrastructure to run features reliably and cost‑effectively.
• Design internal systems and processes for testing and releasing the product, with tooling to diagnose and run missions successfully.
• Strengthen security by designing and enforcing identity and access controls, networking and policy controls.
• Lean into AI to automate routine operational tasks and accelerate infrastructure delivery.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform/OpenTofu

AWS/GCP/Azure

Golang

TypeScript

Python

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Education

Advanced Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

RDS

Redis/Elasticache

EKS

Temporal

Istio

Typesense

Job description

Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

The Experience

Global supply chains still rely on slow, manual processes—email, spreadsheets, and fragmented data. The economy moves fast but supply chains don't, creating an inefficiency that affects the $13T of goods shipped annually and is one of the largest untapped opportunities in modern enterprise. Agentforce Operations is reimagining the supply chain with an AI-powered platform for designing, automating, and running end-to-end business processes, with seamless collaboration through familiar channels like email. For Salesforce, this represents a massive growth opportunity in the back office, with innovations that flow into the front office. Customers are clamoring for more, rapidly expanding their use cases as we enter an exhilarating growth phase. As one user put it: “I've been waiting for this for 20 years.” The Teams

Agentforce Operations & Missionforce Team

As a Site Reliability Engineer for Missionforce Operations, you will be a senior technical contributor who helps shape the infrastructure, process automation and engineering practices behind the product. You will partner closely with product engineers, sector experts, and forward-deployed engineers to deliver the most reliable systems for mission‑critical public‑sector workflows.

Missionforce Operations is Agentforce Operations’ public‑sector counterpart: rebuilt from the ground up to bring core capabilities to some of the world’s most sensitive operating environments. In this role, you will design and ship infrastructure, automation, and cost‑efficient platform capabilities that enable customers to run Missionforce Operations reliably and securely in customer‑owned, isolated public‑cloud environments, where requirements for trust, security, and data classification are uncompromising.

Super Agent Team

As a Site Reliability Engineer for the Agentforce Operations Super Agent team, your mandate will be to radically optimize the scalability, resilience, and performance of our product and platform across the entire stack to help usher in this next phase of growth. The ideal candidate would be able to develop a deep technical understanding of our architecture and then deliver the end‑to‑end implementation of optimizations that would enable us to achieve greater scalability while simultaneously improving our reliability. Agentforce Operations manages complex, infinitely configurable states with equally complex state transitions and interfaces to teams across the organization. That means you'd be tackling a wide array of challenges that would include optimization of our existing data model, streamlining of our asynchronous operations patterns, profiling and rightsizing our infrastructure, and developing both the tools and observability to run experiments and empirically validate results.

What You’ll Actually Be Doing

Agentforce Operations & Missionforce Team

• Scaling & Reliability: Own the reliability roadmap for major product areas, evolving startup‑speed architectures into highly available, globally scalable systems for mission‑critical customer‑operated cloud environments.
• Collaborative Leadership: Partner with engineers to refine our infrastructure strategy, contributing senior‑level perspectives on system design, capacity planning, bottleneck identification, and security.
• Infrastructure as Code: Define, maintain and evolve our tools for deployments, focusing on making deployments as “push‑button” and robust as possible.
• AI Operations (AIOps): Support the scaling and deployment of our AI/ML infrastructure, ensuring the compute, deployment and platform capabilities required to run AI features reliably and cost‑effectively.
• Production Excellence: Design and build the internal systems and processes for testing and releasing the product, along with the tooling and automation that enable customers and partners to deploy, upgrade, diagnose, and run Missionforce Operations successfully with minimal direct engineering involvement.
• Security Engineering: Design, review, and strengthen identity and access controls, networking, workload isolation, secret management, deployment security, and policy enforcement to ensure the product is secure by default.
• AI‑First Workflow: Lean into the future of engineering by using AI tools to automate routine operational tasks and accelerate infrastructure delivery.

Super Agent

• Diagnose and prioritize architectural problems across our distributed backend systems, contributing technical perspective to help the team invest in the right foundational work at the right time.
• Design and implement solutions to hard system problems including application performance optimization, infrastructure management, and data model improvements.
• Raise and maintain our engineering quality bar through pragmatic standards, guardrails, and team practices that prevent regressions and keep our product healthy and performant.
• Collaborate with peers across customer, product, and engineering to deeply understand customer needs, make pragmatic tradeoffs that maximize impact, and align on engineering reality.
• Mentor engineers as a senior peer and force multiplier, sharing expertise across backend architecture and system design while helping shape stronger engineering judgment, more effective collaboration, and a higher‑performing team.

You’re Our Person If...

Agentforce Operations & Missionforce Team

• Proven Production Experience: Experience supporting mission‑critical production systems and helping high‑growth products navigate the technical debt and architectural changes required to scale reliably.
• Technical Breadth: Strong proficiency in Kubernetes, Terraform/OpenTofu, and AWS/GCP/Azure.
• Coding Mastery: Ability to write and review production‑level code in Golang, TypeScript, or Python—you view automation as a software engineering problem.
• Systems Expert: Deep understanding of distributed systems, including how to debug complex interactions between microservices, databases, and AI agents.
• Low‑Ego Collaboration: Experience working within a senior team of Principal engineers, capable of both leading specific initiatives and supporting the broader group’s technical vision.
• Mentorship Mindset: Enthusiasm for learning and growing as an engineer, and for helping your peers do the same.
• AI Fluency: A demonstrated ability to use modern AI development tools to move faster and build more reliable systems.
• Drive: Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast‑paced startup environment.
• Excellent Communicator: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with people from varied technical backgrounds.

Super Agent

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, Production Engineering, or Backend Engineering with a heavy focus on operations and infrastructure.
• Mastery of Golang, GraphQL, and PSQL, with demonstrated experience delivering high‑performance optimizations. Experience with RDS, Redis/Elasticache, and EKS.
• Deep expertise in multiple areas of backend engineering such as data modeling, db performance tuning, state management, API design, transactionality, concurrency, memory management, fault tolerance, and scaling, with the ability to pick up new technologies quickly.
• Repeated ownership of foundational system work in complex distributed systems, from diagnosing architectural problems to designing solutions to driving adoption across a team.
• Excellent writing and speaking skills and ability to lead real‑time technical‑design discussions.
• Demonstrated ownership and accountability, with a consistent track record of high standards, continuous improvement, and low‑ego collaboration.

Even Better If...

Agentforce Operations & Missionforce Team

• Advanced Degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Compliance and Regulated Industries: Experience building products for regulated industries, particularly the public sector or environments with strong security, compliance, and data‑sovereignty requirements.
• Familiarity with developing for classified or limited‑connectivity environments, including Department of Defense Impact Levels such as IL6.
• Advanced knowledge of microservice orchestration and durability patterns, including hands‑on experience with Temporal for workflow reliability and service mesh for secure, observable service‑to‑service communication in high‑growth SaaS environments.
• Deep knowledge of networking, security, and identity management within major cloud providers.
• Experience building AI products for supply chain, logistics, manufacturing, or operational workflows.

Super Agent

• B.S. in Computer Science (M.S. preferred)
• Exposure to Temporal, Istio, or Typesense
• Experience with CI/CD systems, specifically Jenkins and Spinnaker.
• Exposure to the supply chain, logistics, or manufacturing industry. (We will teach you otherwise!)
• Familiarity with the Salesforce platform
• Experience with workflow engines

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love.

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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.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.The typical base salary range for this position is $148,500 - $313,700 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $178,900 - $344,700 annually.The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.