Senior Platform Orchestration Engineer - Cloud & CI/CD

Salesforce; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Platform Orchestration engineer to lead end-to-end delivery of software projects that improve how services are deployed, managed, and observed across Slack’s infrastructure.

The role focuses on building foundational orchestration systems, automating workflows, and ensuring scalable, compliant service operations using infrastructure-as-code and AWS-native services.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with scalable systems mindset.
• Curiosity and a systems mindset to uplift teams.
• Reliability, scalability and operational efficiency in distributed systems.
• Collaborative, mentoring mindset with emphasis on testing and design.
• Hands-on experience operating backend systems in production.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of software projects to improve deployment, management, and observability across Slack’s infrastructure.
• Design and build foundational orchestration systems for reliable, scalable platform operations.
• Develop tools to streamline CD, automate incident workflows, and track service health metrics.
• Implement platform solutions using infrastructure-as-code and AWS-native services for consistency.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate platform capabilities into workflows for faster shipping and reliability.
• Contribute to internal frameworks supporting deployment workflows, service ownership, and lifecycle management.
• Advocate for platform efficiency and reduce operational costs through tooling and automation.

Skills

Strong fundamentals

Systems mindset

Reliability & performance

Collaborative mentoring

AWS experience

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Platform Orchestration engineer to lead end-to-end delivery of software projects that improve how services are deployed, managed, and observed across Slack’s infrastructure.

The role focuses on building foundational orchestration systems, automating workflows, and ensuring scalable, compliant service operations using infrastructure-as-code and AWS-native services.