Senior MuleSoft Architect: Cloud, Kubernetes & HA

100 Salesforce, Inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 218,000 - 401,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking an Architect for MuleSoft to provide architecture leadership for global infrastructure. You will define technical vision across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, networking, and data stores, collaborating with engineering, product, security, and SRE to deliver scalable, secure solutions.

You will drive end-to-end design, review architectures, and guide modernization of legacy systems for high availability and disaster recovery across regions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience designing and building large-scale software, cloud, or infrastructure systems.
• Significant experience providing architectural or senior technical leadership across multiple engineering teams.
• Deep expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, containerized infrastructure (Docker/EKS), and distributed systems knowledge.
• Strong knowledge of networking concepts (DNS, load balancing, routing, proxies, network security) and high-availability multi-region disaster-recovery design.
• Clear communication of complex architectural concepts to technical and executive audiences; proven track record of building consensus and mentoring senior technical talent.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the architecture for MuleSoft infrastructure and platform services, balancing scalability, availability, security, performance, and cost, while leading end-to-end design of complex distributed systems spanning cloud platforms, Kubernetes, networking, and data stores.
• Serve as a senior technical authority, leading architecture reviews and partnering with engineering leaders, product managers, security, and SRE to evaluate tradeoffs and develop solutions across organizational boundaries.
• Develop strategies for modernizing legacy infrastructure and design for high availability, fault isolation, disaster recovery, and reduced blast radius across globally distributed systems.
• Identify architectural bottlenecks and systemic risks, and produce clear architecture documentation, reference architectures, and technical standards that guide teams toward consistent, scalable decisions.
• Mentor and guide senior engineers to foster architectural excellence across multiple teams.

Skills

Architectural leadership

AWS expertise

Kubernetes & Docker

EKS

Distributed systems

Microservices

API architectures

Networking concepts

Disaster recovery

Mentoring

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

EKS

Jenkins

Git

Job description

Salesforce is seeking an Architect for MuleSoft to provide architecture leadership for global infrastructure. You will define technical vision across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, networking, and data stores, collaborating with engineering, product, security, and SRE to deliver scalable, secure solutions.

You will drive end-to-end design, review architectures, and guide modernization of legacy systems for high availability and disaster recovery across regions.