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From the employer's careers site First seen 28 Oct 2026 · Still live on 31 Oct 2026

Backend Java Engineer

Salary

$172,500 - $260,100 annually

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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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