Senior Mesh Systems Architect - AI-Driven, Scalable

Salesforce; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 218,000 - 305,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Systems Architect to shape the technical foundation and long-term architecture of our mesh networking platform, collaborating with engineering leaders to ensure the system scales with demand.

The role emphasizes architecting distributed systems at scale, guiding major design decisions, and leveraging Claude and modern AI coding tools to accelerate delivery across multiple engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of experience in software/system architecture.
• Experience architecting distributed systems at scale across multiple teams.
• Ability to communicate complex trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define and document the overall system architecture across services and components.
• Evaluate technical trade-offs and guide major design decisions.
• Partner with engineering leads to ensure architectural consistency as the platform grows.
• Identify scalability, performance, and reliability risks early and design solutions.

Skills

Distributed systems architecture

Technical leadership

Stakeholder communication

AI tool usage (Claude, agent loops)

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Claude AI

Agent loops

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Systems Architect to shape the technical foundation and long-term architecture of our mesh networking platform, collaborating with engineering leaders to ensure the system scales with demand.

The role emphasizes architecting distributed systems at scale, guiding major design decisions, and leveraging Claude and modern AI coding tools to accelerate delivery across multiple engineering teams.