Software Engineering Architect - Mulesoft

Salesforce; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 218,000 - 365,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking an Architect for MuleSoft to provide architectural leadership for platforms and infrastructure powering global services. You will define the technical vision, translate requirements into scalable, secure solutions, and influence across engineering, product, security, and operations teams.

This senior role demands broad infrastructure expertise, strong architectural judgment, and mentoring of engineers. Location options include San Francisco or Bellevue.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building large-scale software, cloud, or infrastructure systems.
• Strong architectural leadership across multiple engineering teams.
• Deep expertise in public cloud platforms (AWS), Kubernetes, Docker, and EKS.
• Strong knowledge of networking, DNS, load balancing, and multi-region DR.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve architecture for MuleSoft infrastructure and platform services across cloud, Kubernetes, networking, and data stores.
• Lead architecture reviews with engineering leaders, product, security, and SRE to evaluate tradeoffs and guide decisions.
• Develop strategies for modernizing legacy infrastructure with high availability and fault isolation.
• Identify bottlenecks, produce architecture docs, reference architectures, and technical standards.

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

EKS

Distributed systems

API architectures

Technical leadership

SRE collaboration

Tools

Jenkins

Git

Job description

Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

About Salesforce

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The Experience

Location: San Francisco, CA or Bellevue, WA

As an Architect for MuleSoft, you will provide architectural leadership for the platforms and infrastructure that power MuleSoft's highly available, globally distributed services. You'll define the technical vision for complex infrastructure initiatives, working across engineering, product, security, and operations teams to translate business and platform requirements into scalable, resilient, secure, and operationally efficient solutions. This is a highly technical leadership role requiring strong architectural judgment, broad infrastructure expertise, and the ability to influence engineering direction across multiple teams and organizations.

What You'll Actually Be Doing

• Define and evolve the architecture for MuleSoft infrastructure and platform services, balancing scalability, availability, security, performance, and cost, while leading end-to-end design of complex distributed systems spanning cloud platforms, Kubernetes, networking, and data stores.
• Serve as a senior technical authority, leading architecture reviews and partnering with engineering leaders, product managers, security, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to evaluate tradeoffs and develop solutions across organizational boundaries.
• Develop strategies for modernizing legacy infrastructure and design for high availability, fault isolation, disaster recovery, and reduced blast radius across globally distributed systems.
• Identify architectural bottlenecks and systemic risks, and produce clear architecture documentation, reference architectures, and technical standards that guide teams toward consistent, scalable decisions.

You're Our Person If...

• You have 10+ years of experience designing and building large-scale software, cloud, or infrastructure systems, with significant experience providing architectural or senior technical leadership across multiple engineering teams.
• You have deep expertise with public cloud platforms (particularly Amazon Web Services (AWS)), Kubernetes and containerized infrastructure (including Docker and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)), and strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and API architectures.
• You have strong knowledge of networking concepts — Domain Name System (DNS), load balancing, routing, proxies, and network security — along with experience in high-availability, multi-region, and disaster-recovery architecture design.
• You communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to both technical and executive audiences, and have a strong track record of building consensus and mentoring senior technical talent.

Even Better If...

• You have experience architecting large-scale SaaS or enterprise cloud platforms, including globally distributed, multi-tenant systems.
• You have experience designing infrastructure supporting mission-critical services with stringent availability and reliability requirements.
• You have familiarity with modern Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) and software delivery platforms, including Git-based workflows and tools such as Jenkins.
• You hold relevant cloud, Kubernetes, security, or architecture certifications.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love.

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

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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. The typical base salary range for this position is $218,400 - $365,200 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $263,200 - $401,400 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.