Software Engineer- Infrastructure/Service Mesh

Salesforce; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time off

Medical insurance

Dental coverage

Vision care

Mental health support

Paid parental leave

Life and disability insurance

401(k)

Employee stock purchase program

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a distributed systems software engineer to design and implement the next-generation Ingress Gateway control and data planes, transforming the software stack to cloud-native primitives.

You will drive the design, work on open-source projects, and own significant parts of the gateway platform, balancing reliability, security, and performance across data centers.

Qualifications

• Experience building reliable, self-healing services.
• Good knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, TLS termination, HTTP proxies.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems across data centers.
• Familiar with OSS service mesh technologies (Envoy, Istio) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and implementation of the next-generation Ingress Gateway control and data planes.
• Drive cloud-native transformation and contribute to open-source projects.
• Collaborate with teams to deliver a scalable load-balancing and proxy platform.

Skills

Service ownership

Public cloud

Network technologies

Live-site management

Distributed systems

Job description

Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

About Salesforce

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The role involves building a scalable Ingress Gateway load balancing and proxy platform. The team provides interfaces for L4/L7 load balancing, TLS termination, end-to-end encryption, and traffic policies like blue/green deployments and access control. The role requires driving the design and implementation of the next-generation Ingress Gateway control and data planes, transforming the software stack to adopt cloud-native primitives, and contributing to open-source projects like Envoy and Istio. The team seeks experienced distributed systems software engineers passionate about new challenges and capable of owning significant parts of the vision.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Experience and passion for service ownership, building reliable/self-healing services.
• Familiar with public cloud, particularly AWS and GCP.
• Good knowledge of network technologies (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS termination, HTTP proxies).
• Experience balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and technical debt retirement.
• Experience designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers.

What does success look like in your first 60-90 days?

• Ability to quickly learn the technical stack. This includes understanding OSS service mesh technologies (e.g. Envoy, Istio, NGINX), kubernetes, helm charts, spinnaker, load balancing, security groups. Developing a strong understanding of network technologies, such as TCP/IP, DNS, TLS termination, HTTP proxies is a must. Openness to working in an agile environment, delivering within milestones and dependency constraints, while focusing on quality coding, test coverage, high availability, and security.

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In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.

Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including:

• time off programs
• medical
• dental
• vision
• mental health support
• paid parental leave
• life and disability insurance
• 401(k)
• employee stock purchasing program

More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.

The typical base salary range for this position is $148,500 - $223,900 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $178,900 - $246,000 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.