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.