Infrastructure/Service Mesh Software Engineer

Salesforce•San Francisco, CA

6d•$197,300 - $344,700•Hybrid

About The Position

Salesforce hosts web services and applications written by thousands of internal developers and tens of thousands of customers to provide the largest business automation cloud in the world. The underlying infrastructure that enables this innovation and value is evolving to fully adopt lights-out operations, single-click deploy to tens of thousands of nodes, and services that self-heal and self-optimize. Join a team building the Service Mesh and Ingress Gateway load balancing and proxy platform. The Microservices Platform Service Mesh team is building a highly scalable and distributed load balancing and gateway service to front all customer traffic coming into Salesforce. We provide simple declarative interfaces for L4/L7 load balancing, TLS termination, end-to-end encryption, along with support for richer traffic policies such as blue/green deployments, access control, etc. The team owns the application networking layer and enables secure, resilient, observable communication. We are looking for people who can drive the design and implementation of the next generation Ingress Gateway data plane and control plane. We intend to transform our current software stack to adopt more cloud native primitives to build a more reliable, scalable, and feature-rich service mesh. Our software stack is based on leading edge open source software like Envoy for data plane and Istio for control plane. The opportunities to enhance the capabilities of the OSS software and contribute back to the community are immense. The team has already made active upstream contributions to the Envoy project. We intend to transform the way our north-south traffic is secured, load balanced and proxied before entering our core service mesh. We are looking to add experienced distributed systems engineers who are passionate, hungry for new challenges, can step up and own large areas of that vision.

Requirements

10+ years of experience with strong infrastructure background.
Proficiency with Golang, Java and/or C++ in a Linux/UNIX data center environment.
Experience in operating large scale cluster management systems (e.g. Kubernetes) of a mission critical service.
Strong knowledge of network technologies, such as TCP/IP, DNS, TLS termination, HTTP proxies, network load balancing, etc.
Experience with cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms.
Working knowledge of CI/CD, configuration management and Infrastructure as Code principles (e.g. Spinnaker, Terraform).
Experience with Agile development methodology (e.g. Scrum) and Test-Driven Development, with attention to code quality, and delivering secure code.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Istio/Envoy is a huge plus.

Responsibilities

Define and drive the technical strategy for infrastructure platforms, including compute, networking, storage, and observability systems that serve as the foundation for all engineering teams — owning architecture decisions, setting multi-year roadmaps, and ensuring systems scale reliably to meet business growth.
Raise the engineering bar across the organization by establishing paved-path patterns for reliability, performance, and operational excellence — mentoring senior engineers, leading design reviews, and driving cross-team alignment on infrastructure standards that reduce toil and accelerate delivery.
Participation in the team’s on-call rotation to address complex problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available.
Experience in using telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellence.