Distributed Systems Software Engineer - Public Cloud; Mid​/Senior​/Lead​/Principal

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Through technology, trust, and innovation, we aim to better business and the world using AI, all while keeping Salesforce’s core values at the heart of it all.

As a Distributed Systems Software Engineer in our Public Cloud team, you will innovate and maintain a large‑scale distributed systems engineering platform that delivers hundreds of features to tens of millions of users daily. Your work will focus on building highly reliable, fast, secure, and customizable services, ensuring availability and performance across numerous data centers.

• 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 that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers.
• Use and contribute to open‑source technologies such as Spinnaker and Zookeeper.
• Develop Infrastructure‑as‑Code using Terraform.
• Write microservices on containerization frameworks such as Kubernetes, Docker, and Mesos.
• Resolve complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance.
• Balance 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.

• A related technical degree.
• 3+ years of backend software development experience.
• Deep knowledge of programming in Java, Go, Python, or Ruby.
• Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a critical service.
• Experience with Agile development methodology and Test‑Driven Development.
• Experience with critical infrastructure services including monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting applications.

Our benefits include wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and many more. Please visit our benefits site for full details.

If you require assistance due to a disability applying for open positions, please submit a request via the Accommodations Request Form.

Salesforce is an equal‑opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non‑discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. We assess employees and potential employees on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law.

This policy applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions are fair and based on merit.

The typical base salary range for this position is $125,700 – $306,600 annually. In select cities such as San Francisco and New York City, the range is $137,100 – $334,600. The range represents base salary only and does not include bonuses, equity, or other benefits.