Distributed Systems Software Engineer, GovCloud - Senior​/Lead

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. In this role, you will contribute to a future of AI that reflects our core values while delivering mission‑critical systems to government and enterprise clients.

Must be a U.S. Citizen operating on U.S. soil with the ability to meet customer and government screening standards applicable to this role, including a Criminal Justice Information Services screening with fingerprint scan. Citizenship will be verified through two of the following REAL  documents: U.S. Passport, Passport Card, REAL Driver’s License, Global Entry Card, U.S. Government CAC/PIV.

• Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on our 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 technology (Spinnaker, Zookeeper, etc.).
• 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 is required.
• 5+ years of backend software development experience.
• Deep knowledge of programming in Java, Golang, 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.
• Experience with distributed database systems and relational databases such as PostgreSQL is a plus.

Benefits include wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more.

The typical base salary range for this position is $148,500 – $260,100 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan areas, the base salary range is $178,900 – $285,800 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive, equity, or other benefits.

Salesforce is an equal‑opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non‑discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. Our policy applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. We assess all employees and prospective 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.

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