# Backend Java Engineer

**Company**: Salesforce
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**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 visionary, high-energy backend Java engineer to lead the design, architecture, and deployment of cutting-edge CDN services. You'll build real-time analytics and intelligent automation that enable our systems to self-heal and self-optimize in real time , ensuring complex, agentic AI-driven workflows execute seamlessly at scale.

Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, debug, and operate resilient distributed systems

- Balance live-site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt

- Manage large, complex systems in the cloud

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

- Build autonomous, self-healing systems that optimize performance for AI-heavy traffic patterns

- Drive and deliver thin slices of functionality on a regular cadence with data-driven feedback loops in an agile environment

- Create, maintain and share technical documentation used by engineers and other team members

Requirements:

- 10+ years of hands-on, battle-tested engineering experience

- Deep mastery of object-oriented programming with a strong focus on Java

- Solid, reliable expertise in modern database technologies

- Enthusiasm for Agile development workflows, continuous integration, and comprehensive testing

- Passion for leveraging telemetry and metrics to champion operational excellence

- In-depth fluency in design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and high-concurrency systems

- Proven track record engineering top-tier public cloud platforms across GCP, AWS, Azure, and/or Alibaba

- Hands-on expertise with cutting-edge container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, Docker, Helios, Fleet, or Mesos

- Drive to own and operate mission-critical infrastructure services at scale, including monitoring, alerting, logging, and performance analytics

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
- object-oriented programming
- modern database technologies
- Agile development
- continuous integration
- comprehensive testing
- design patterns
- data structures
- algorithms
- high-concurrency systems
- public cloud platforms
- container orchestration tools

### Nice to have
- open-source projects
- SOAP/REST APIs
- clean, scalable API design
- core networking protocols
- Nginx
- Envoy
- TCP/IP
- DNS
- TLS termination
- HTTP proxies
- AWS Cloudfront
- Google CDN
- Cloudflare
- Akamai
- high-throughput big data stack tools
- Spark
- Kafka
- Druid
- CI/CD pipelines
- Jenkins

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