Software Engineer (GovCloud)

Salesforce; Bellevue (KY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Care

Life Insurance

Retirement Savings

Employee Assistance Programs

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking an experienced backend software engineer to design, develop, and operate resilient distributed systems at scale. You will build production-grade software with AI-first workflows and contribute to cloud infrastructure automation using tools like Terraform and Kubernetes.

The role requires strong experience in Java, Golang, Python, or Ruby and a solid base in PostgreSQL, with Agile and TDD practices.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of backend software development experience.
• A related technical degree is required.
• Experience with Agile development methodology and Test Driven Development.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, debug, and operate resilient distributed systems across thousands of nodes.
• Build and ship production-grade software with AI-centric development workflows.
• Contribute to cloud infrastructure automation and CI/CD tooling.
• Evaluate code for correctness, security, and performance.
• Participate in on-call rotations to maintain high availability.

Skills

Backend development

Java

Golang

Python

Ruby

AI tools

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Terraform

Spinnaker

Zookeeper

PostgreSQL

Agile

Test Driven Development

Education

Related technical degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Mesos

Spinnaker

Zookeeper

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Job description

• Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we’re looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce’s core values at the heart of it all
• Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce
• Our Public Cloud engineering teams are responsible for innovating and maintaining a large scale distributed systems engineering platform that ships hundreds of features to production for tens of millions of users across all industries every day. Our users count on our platform to be highly reliable, lightning fast, supremely secure, and to preserve all of their customizations and integrations every time we ship
• You will need deep experience with concurrency, large scale systems, proficiency with solving real-world data management challenges, a strong understanding of how to craft solutions that are highly available, and a proven ability to design, develop, and optimize the core back-end systems
• Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on our public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba
• Designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers
• Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow by pushing the boundaries of AI development tools (Cursor, Windsurf, Claude, OpenAI API) to deliver secure, optimized, and high-quality code
• Using and contributing to open source technology (Spinnaker, Zookeeper, etc.)
• Developing Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform
• Writing microservices on containerization frameworks such as Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos
• Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale
• Contribute to building and maintaining the shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably
• Critically evaluate code (Human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance
• Resolving complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance
• Eat, sleep, and breathe services. You have experience balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to address complex problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available

Benefits

• Medical Care
• Life Insurance
• Retirement Savings
• Employee Assistance Programs
• With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year

Must be a U.S. Citizen operating on U.S. Soil with ability to meet customer and government screening standards applicable to this role, including a Criminal Justice Information Services screening with fingerprint scan.

Due to the citizenship requirement for this role, which supports U.S. federal, state, and/or local government customers, citizenship will be verified through two of the following REAL ID Act documents: U.S. Passport, Passport Card, REAL Driver’s License, Global Entry Card, U.S. Government CAC/PIV

This role requires advanced prompt engineering skills — the ability to write precise, structured prompts and cultivate the system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production-ready

Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, etc.) in development workflows

Experience with distributed database system and relational databases like postgres is a plus

3+ years backend software development experience

Experience with Agile development methodology and Test Driven Development

A related technical degree required

Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a critical service

A demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering. Using AI to move faster, build fluency across the stack, and contribute well beyond your core specialty

Deep knowledge of programming in Java, Golang, Python, or RubyExperience with critical infrastructure services including, monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting applications

Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to write precise, structured prompts and cultivate the system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production-ready