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

Role overview

Join Salesforce’s Public Cloud engineering team as a Distributed Systems Software Engineer. You will build and maintain a large-scale distributed systems engineering platform that supports millions of users.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, debug, and operate resilient distributed systems
• Build cloud infrastructure automation tools and run critical services
• Develop and manage Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
• Deliver and maintain highly available backend systems
• Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure service high availability
• Use and contribute to open-source technologies (e.g., Spinnaker, ZooKeeper)
• Solve complex production/operations issues and manage live-site reliability

Requirements

• Experience balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and technical debt retirement
• Agile development experience and Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Experience with critical infrastructure services such as:
  • Monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting
• Related technical degree required
• Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a critical service
• 3+ years of backend software development
• Deep knowledge of programming in Java, Golang, Python, or Ruby
• Strong expertise in:
  • Concurrency
  • Large-scale systems
  • Real-world data management challenges
  • Designing and optimizing highly available core backend systems

Nice to have (from the posting)

• Experience with open-source distributed systems tooling such as Spinnaker and ZooKeeper
• Terraform proficiency for Infrastructure-as-Code