Senior/Lead Distributed Systems Software Engineer (GovCloud)

Role overview

Join Salesforce Public Cloud as a Senior/Lead Distributed Systems Software Engineer. You will design, build, debug, and operate resilient distributed systems that run at massive scale and deliver high availability services. You will also develop cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, and validation platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, debug, and operate resilient distributed systems running on thousands of compute nodes across multiple data centers
• Build cloud infrastructure automation tools (frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms)
• Deliver and support platforms on public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba)
• Participate in the on-call rotation to resolve complex production issues in real time and maintain high availability

Requirements

• Deep experience with concurrency and large-scale systems
• Strong ability to solve real-world data management challenges
• Proven ability to design and optimize core backend systems for high availability
• 5+ years of backend software development experience
• Deep knowledge of programming in Java, Go (Golang), Python, or Ruby
• Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a critical service
• Relevant technical degree required

Nice to have

• Experience with distributed database systems and relational databases such as PostgreSQL
• Experience with Agile and Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Experience with critical infrastructure services: monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting