Senior Systems Architect, Mesh Networking Platform

salesforce.com, inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 218,000 - 401,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Systems Architect on MeshMesh to shape the technical foundation and long-term architecture of the mesh networking platform, working closely with engineering leaders to ensure the system scales with customer demand. You will define architecture across services, evaluate trade-offs, partner with leads for consistency, and identify risks early.

An Agentic Engineer mindset, leveraging Claude and AI tools to accelerate delivery, is highly valued.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of software engineering or systems architecture experience.
• Proven track record architecting distributed systems at scale.
• Able to communicate complex trade-offs to diverse audiences.
• Experience guiding architecture across multiple engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and document the overall system architecture across services and components.
• Evaluate technical trade-offs and guide major design decisions.
• Partner with engineering leads to ensure architectural consistency as the platform grows.
• Identify scalability, performance, and reliability risks early and design solutions to address them.

Skills

Distributed systems

Architecting at scale

Technical trade-offs

Cross-team guidance

AI tool integration

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Systems Architect on MeshMesh to shape the technical foundation and long-term architecture of the mesh networking platform, working closely with engineering leaders to ensure the system scales with customer demand. You will define architecture across services, evaluate trade-offs, partner with leads for consistency, and identify risks early.

An Agentic Engineer mindset, leveraging Claude and AI tools to accelerate delivery, is highly valued.