Senior Staff Engineer, Data Cloud Control Plane

Salesforce; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 148,500 - 223,900; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Member of Technical Staff to architect and build the next generation of control plane services for Data 360. You will design resource isolation, multi-tenancy, and distributed systems while evolving compute infrastructure to support batch, streaming, interactive queries, and AI/ML workloads at petabyte scale.

You will lead architecture decisions, design intelligent job scheduling, and implement Kubernetes operators, collaborating with product teams and distributed

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with distributed systems.
• Expert-level Kubernetes experience: operators, controllers, scheduling, resource management.
• Production experience running large-scale infrastructure serving mission-critical workloads.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Java, Python, or Rust.
• Deep understanding of containers, orchestration, networking, storage, and compute isolation.
• Experience designing and building control planes for distributed infrastructure.
• Experience using AI tools in development workflows.
• Proven technical leadership: driving architecture, mentoring engineers, influencing technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Design and build our next gen Control Plane services.
• Drive architectural decisions on resource isolation, multi-tenancy, and distributed system design.
• Evolve compute infrastructure to support diverse workload patterns including AI/ML workloads at scale.
• Design intelligent job scheduling and orchestration systems to maximize resource utilization.
• Build platform primitives for capacity management and workload isolation.
• Implement custom Kubernetes operators and controllers for specialized workload requirements.
• Develop infrastructure strategies to sustain AI/ML workloads with GPU management.
• Architect resource management protocols for varied compute ecosystems.
• Partner with infrastructure teams to establish integration frameworks for advancing AI tech.
• Lead code reviews, define coding standards, translate requirements into technical specs.
• Collaborate with product teams to design features and manage scope and delivery.
• Assess impact of new requirements across apps and coordinate with distributed engineers.

Skills

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Go

Java

Python

Rust

AI tooling

Large-scale infra

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Spark

Flink

Presto

Vector databases

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Member of Technical Staff to architect and build the next generation of control plane services for Data 360. You will design resource isolation, multi-tenancy, and distributed systems while evolving compute infrastructure to support batch, streaming, interactive queries, and AI/ML workloads at petabyte scale.

You will lead architecture decisions, design intelligent job scheduling, and implement Kubernetes operators, collaborating with product teams and distributed