Systems Architect - MeshMesh: Scale Distributed Mesh

Salesforce, Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 305,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Systems Architect for MeshMesh in San Francisco, CA.

The role shapes the technical foundation and long-term architecture of a mesh networking platform, collaborating with engineering leaders to ensure the system scales to meet customer demand. The ideal candidate has 10-15 years of experience architecting distributed systems, strong ability to communicate trade-offs to diverse audiences, and a track record guiding architecture across multiple teams.

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of experience.
• Significant experience architecting distributed systems at scale.
• Skilled at communicating complex technical trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience guiding architecture across multiple engineering teams.
• Agentic Engineer – design systems/workflows that leverage Claude and modern AI coding tools to accelerate delivery.

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

Technical communication

Architecting multiple teams

Agentic AI tools usage

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Systems Architect for MeshMesh in San Francisco, CA.

The role shapes the technical foundation and long-term architecture of a mesh networking platform, collaborating with engineering leaders to ensure the system scales to meet customer demand. The ideal candidate has 10-15 years of experience architecting distributed systems, strong ability to communicate trade-offs to diverse audiences, and a track record guiding architecture across multiple teams.