Senior Staff Software Engineer - Cloud Platform & AI Infra

Salesforce, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a senior infrastructure engineer to design and operate the Cloud Platform Engineering stack. You will build automated, multi-account AWS environments with Terraform Enterprise, guardrails, and AI-assisted tooling to accelerate delivery across teams.

You will own core infrastructure modules, implement failover strategies, and contribute to observability, security, and reliability at scale, partnering with product teams to reduce toil and improve velocity.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Software Engineering, SRE, or Platform Engineering in large-scale AWS environments.
• Expert-level Terraform: state at scale, module decoupling, continuous IaC delivery.
• Strong Python or Go for custom tooling and AWS SDK integrations.
• Deep AWS core services: IAM, VPC, Cloud WAN, EKS/ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB — multi-region active-active DR.
• GitOps-driven deployments with automated guardrails baked into enterprise pipelines.
• Active practitioner of AI-assisted development (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• AWS Infrastructure Vending Machine: Own AFT as Terraform Enterprise SME; automate multi-region, multi-account provisioning via AWS Organizations and Control Tower.
• Enterprise Golden Modules: Author, test, and version-control a library of secure, pre-approved Terraform modules; translate compliance requirements into Sentinel/SCP policies.
• CI/CD & Guardrail Integration: Embed automated security scanning, Policy-as-Code enforcement, and cost guardrails directly into developer PRs; use AI to surface risk and remediation suggestions.
• Resilience & Active-Active Delivery: Implement automated failover across AZs and regions using Cloud WAN, ARC, and FIS; lead Game Days.
• Agentic ChatOps & Slack Integration: Wire provisioning pipelines and AI agents into Slack for real-time intelligence and zero-touch operations.
• AI-Augmented IaC: Use AI coding assistants as primary tools to author, review, and validate infrastructure code.
• Observability Platform: Build centralized logging, metrics, and tracing; define and enforce SLOs/SLIs.
• SRE Advisory: Advise internal teams on observability best practices and resilience architecture.

Skills

Terraform

Python/Go

AWS

GitOps

AI-assisted development

Tools

Terraform Enterprise

AWS SDK

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a senior infrastructure engineer to design and operate the Cloud Platform Engineering stack. You will build automated, multi-account AWS environments with Terraform Enterprise, guardrails, and AI-assisted tooling to accelerate delivery across teams.

You will own core infrastructure modules, implement failover strategies, and contribute to observability, security, and reliability at scale, partnering with product teams to reduce toil and improve velocity.