Senior Platform Orchestration Engineer | AWS & CI/CD

Salesforce; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce seeks an experienced Platform Engineer to lead the end-to-end delivery of software projects that improve deployment, management, and observation of services. You will design foundational orchestration systems, build automation tools, and drive scalable, compliant operations across cloud infrastructure.

You will collaborate with engineering teams to embed platform capabilities into workflows, extend internal frameworks, and advocate for cost-conscious engineering while delivering

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and scalable system design.
• Experience operating backend systems in production and cloud environments.
• Hands-on AWS and infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform or similar tools.
• Ability to automate, simplify operations, and drive platform efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of software projects improving deployment and observability.
• Design and build orchestration systems enabling reliable, scalable service ops.
• Develop tools to streamline CD, incident workflows, and health metrics.
• Implement IaC using AWS-native services to drive consistency and scale.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate platform capabilities into workflows.
• Extend internal frameworks supporting deployment workflows and lifecycle management.
• Advocate for platform efficiency through tooling and cross-team engagement.
• Drive adoption of best practices in service orchestration and cloud resource usage.

Skills

Software engineering fundamentals

System design

Reliability

Collaborative mentoring

Distributed systems

AWS experience

Infrastructure as code

Automation mindset

Platform engineering

Observability

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

Salesforce seeks an experienced Platform Engineer to lead the end-to-end delivery of software projects that improve deployment, management, and observation of services. You will design foundational orchestration systems, build automation tools, and drive scalable, compliant operations across cloud infrastructure.

You will collaborate with engineering teams to embed platform capabilities into workflows, extend internal frameworks, and advocate for cost-conscious engineering while delivering