Distributed Systems Software Engineer

Salesforce Inc.
San Francisco, United States of America
1 month ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 260K

Job location

San Francisco, United States of America

Tech stack

Java
Agile Methodologies
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Azure
Cloud Computing
Computer Programming
Data Centers
Relational Databases
Software Debugging
Distributed Data Store
Distributed Systems
Python
PostgreSQL
Open Source Technology
Ruby
Mesos
Software Engineering
Spinnaker
Apache Zookeeper
Data Logging
Google Cloud Platform
Test Driven Development
System Availability
Concurrency
Technical Debt
Backend
Kubernetes
Data Management
Terraform
Docker
Go
Microservices

Job description

Our Public Cloud engineering teams are responsible for innovating and maintaining a large scale distributed systems engineering platform that ships hundreds of features to production for tens of millions of users across all industries every day. Our users count on our platform to be highly reliable, lightning fast, supremely secure, and to preserve all of their customizations and integrations every time we ship. You will need deep experience with concurrency, large scale systems, proficiency with solving real-world data management challenges, a strong understanding of how to craft solutions that are highly available, and a proven ability to design, develop, and optimize the core back-end systems.

Your Impact:

  • Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on our public cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, or Alibaba
  • Designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers
  • Using and contributing to open source technology (Spinnaker, Zookeeper, etc.)
  • Developing Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform
  • Writing microservices on containerization frameworks such as Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos
  • Resolving complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance
  • Eat, sleep, and breathe services. You have experience balancing 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

Requirements

Due to the citizenship requirement for this role, which supports U.S. federal, state, and/or local government customers, citizenship will be verified through two of the following REAL ID Act documents: U.S. Passport, Passport Card, REAL Driver's License, Global Entry Card, U.S. Government CAC/PIV., * A related technical degree required

  • 5+ years 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 system and relational databases like postgres is a plus.

Benefits & conditions

benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.

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. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

About the company

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword - it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce., Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that's inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed 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 current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.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 area, the base salary range for this role is $178,900 - $285,800 annually.The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.", "datePosted": "2026-03-14T09:51:11.000Z", "validThrough": "2026-04-14T09:51:11.000Z", "url": "https://www.dice.com/job-detail/d94cf167-1b41-41b9-b3be-8bd1721b2270", "identifier": {"@type": "PropertyValue", "name": "Salesforce", "value": "d94cf167-1b41-41b9-b3be-8bd1721b2270"}, "hiringOrganization": {"@type": "Organization", "name": "Salesforce", "sameAs": "https://www.dice.com/company-profile/0284ebdb-5cbd-4269-a6f2-06bca639fd53", "logo"

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