Big Data Platform & Distributed Systems (Mid/Senior/Lead/Principal)
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Job description
Build and own large-scale data pipelines and observability systems that power metrics, logging, and real-time insights across services. This role focuses on designing reliable telemetry pipelines, improving monitoring and alerting, and ensuring data quality and system visibility at scale. Ideal candidates have strong distributed systems fundamentals, backend development experience (Java or similar), and experience operating high-throughput data or monitoring platforms in cloud or hybrid environments. Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow by pushing the boundaries of AI development tools to deliver secure, optimized, and high-quality code. Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of distributed systems design, including scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency trade-offs in large-scale data platforms.
- Experience designing and operating large-scale data pipelines, ETL workflows, or streaming data systems.
- Experience with big data and data platform technologies such as Spark, Flink, Kafka, Trino, HBase, or similar.
- Experience operating data platforms or infrastructure services at enterprise scale.
- Experience building or operating observability systems, telemetry pipelines, or monitoring platforms.
- Experience using metrics, logging, and telemetry to drive operational excellence.
- Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow by pushing the boundaries of AI development tools to deliver secure, optimized, and high-quality code.
- Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale.
- Contribute to building and maintaining the shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably.
- Critically evaluate code (Human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance
You're Our Person If...
- A demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering. Using AI to move faster, build fluency across the stack, and contribute well beyond your core specialty.
- Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, etc.) in development workflows
- Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to write precise, structured prompts and cultivate the system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production-ready.
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Benefits & conditions
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: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.Pursuant 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. 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, $117,200 -