# Distributed Systems Software Engineer - GovCloud (Senior/Lead)

**Company**: Salesforce
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $172,500 - $260,100 annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Salesforce is seeking a Distributed Systems Software Engineer - GovCloud (Senior/Lead) to join their Public Cloud engineering team. The successful candidate will be 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.

Responsibilities:

- Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on 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

- Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of the development workflow

- 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, Mesos

- 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

- Resolve complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance

- Participate in the team's on-call rotation to address complex problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available

Requirements:

- 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 systems and relational databases like Postgres is a plus

- A demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering

- 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

Benefits:

- Time off programs

- Medical, dental, vision

- Mental health support

- Paid parental leave

- Life and disability insurance

- 401(k)

- Employee stock purchasing program

The typical base salary range for this position is $172,500 - $260,100 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $207,800 - $285,800 annually.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Golang
- Python
- Ruby
- Agile development methodology
- Test Driven Development
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Mesos
- Spinnaker
- Zookeeper

### Nice to have
- distributed database systems
- relational databases
- Postgres
- AI tools
- prompt engineering

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