Distributed Systems Software Engineer, GovCloud - Senior/Lead

Salesforce•Herndon, VA

2d•$148,500 - $285,800

About The Position

Salesforce is seeking a Senior/Lead Distributed Systems Software Engineer for its GovCloud organization. The role contributes to Public Cloud engineering teams that build and maintain a large-scale distributed systems platform serving tens of millions of users. The engineer designs, develops, debugs, operates, and optimizes reliable, secure, highly available backend systems and cloud infrastructure. The position emphasizes concurrency, data management, production-grade software, AI-assisted engineering, and advanced prompt engineering. Applicants must be U.S. citizens working on U.S. soil and able to meet applicable customer and government screening standards, including a Criminal Justice Information Services screening with fingerprint scan. Citizenship will be verified using two specified REAL ID Act documents.

Requirements

A related technical degree.
At least 5 years of backend software development experience.
Deep programming knowledge 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.
A demonstrated AI-first approach to engineering, using AI to work faster, build fluency across the stack, and contribute beyond one’s core specialty.
Experience using AI tools in development workflows, such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, or Cursor.
Advanced prompt engineering skills, including writing precise, structured prompts and developing system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production-ready.
Must be a U.S. citizen operating on U.S. soil and able to meet applicable customer and government screening standards, including a Criminal Justice Information Services screening with fingerprint scan. Citizenship verification requires two of the listed REAL ID Act documents.

Nice To Haves

Experience with distributed database systems and relational databases such as PostgreSQL.

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 running across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers.
Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices and AI development tools.
Use and contribute to open-source technologies such as Spinnaker and Zookeeper.
Develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform.
Write microservices using containerization frameworks such as Kubernetes, Docker, and Mesos.
Design and orchestrate systems in which AI agents integrate into human workflows.
Contribute to a shared system context repository of system designs, constraints, and standards to support accurate and reliable AI operation.
Evaluate human- or AI-generated code for correctness, quality, security, and performance.
Resolve complex technical issues and improve service availability, resilience, and performance.
Balance live-site management, feature delivery, and technical-debt retirement.
Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to address real-time problems and maintain service operations and availability.