Senior​/Lead Distributed Systems Software Engineer; Cloud Infra

Job Category

Software Engineering

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world.

If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

Salesforce has immediate opportunities for senior software developers who want their lines of code to have significant and measurable positive impact for users. We pride ourselves on writing high-quality, maintainable code that strengthens the stability of the product and makes our lives easier. We embrace the hybrid model and celebrate the individual strengths of each team member while encouraging everyone on the team to grow into the best version of themselves.

Your Impact as a Backend Software Engineer, your job responsibilities will include:

• Build new and exciting components/frameworks in developing distributed file systems in an ever-growing and evolving market technology to provide scale and efficiency.
• Develop high-quality, production-ready code that can be used by millions of users of our cloud platform.
• Build efficient components/algorithms on a microservice multi-tenant SaaS cloud distributed file system environment.
• Code review, mentoring junior engineers, and providing technical guidance to the team.

• Mastery of programming language(s) and platforms 10+ years of software development experience.
• Deep knowledge of object-oriented programming and other scripting languages:
  Java, Python along with strong SQL skills and experience with relational and non-relational databases (Postgres/Trino).
• Experience with developing SaaS products over public cloud infrastructure – AWS, Azure, GCP.
• Proven experience designing and developing distributed systems at scale.
• Proficiency in queues, locks, scheduling, event-driven architecture, and workload distribution, along with a deep understanding of relational database and non-relational databases.
• A deeper understanding of software development best practices and demonstrate leadership skills.

• Experience with Big-Data/ML and S3.
• Hands‑on experience with streaming technologies like Kafka.
• Experience with Elastic Search.
• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker.
• Experience working in a high‑paced and rapidly growing multinational organization.

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In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.

For California‑based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $172,000 to $276,100.