Distributed Systems Software Engineer - Public Cloud (Mid/Senior/Lead/Principal)

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Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

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Position

Distributed Systems Software Engineer - Public Cloud (Senior/Lead/Principal)

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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 daily. Our users rely on our platform to be highly reliable, fast, secure, and to preserve all their customizations and integrations each time we ship. You will need deep experience with concurrency, large-scale systems, solving real-world data management challenges, and designing highly available solutions.

Your Impact

• Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba
• Design, develop, debug, and operate resilient distributed systems across multiple data centers
• Contribute to open source technology (e.g., Spinnaker, Zookeeper)
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform
• Write microservices using containerization frameworks like Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos
• Resolve complex technical issues and innovate to improve system availability, resilience, and performance
• Balance live-site management, feature delivery, and technical debt retirement
• Participate in on-call rotation to address real-time issues and maintain service availability

Required Skills

• Related technical degree
• 3+ years of backend software development experience
• Proficiency in Java, Golang, Python, or Ruby
• Experience owning and operating critical services
• Experience with Agile and Test Driven Development
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting infrastructure

Benefits & Perks

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Additional Information

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Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive workplace free from discrimination. We evaluate all candidates based on merit, competence, and qualifications, regardless of protected characteristics. We consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with applicable laws.

Salary ranges vary by location: $125,700 to $306,600 for San Francisco, and $137,100 to $334,600 for California. Compensation includes salary, incentives, equity, and benefits, with details available at