Software Engineering SMTS

Salesforce•Vancouver, BC

5d•CA$130,300 - CA$179,200•Hybrid

About The Position

The Ajna team builds and operates Salesforce's internal Kafka-as-a-Service platform — the distributed messaging backbone that powers real-time data pipelines, alerting, analytics, and event streaming across every major Salesforce product and cloud environment. The platform serves a broad ecosystem of internal engineering teams across commercial, GovCloud, and sovereign cloud environments globally. This team pursues principled, high-impact architectural evolution with direct consequences at production scale. The team operates with distributed coverage across Pacific and India Standard Time zones, maintains continuous on-call coverage, and is actively invested in intelligent automation — including AI-powered tooling built in-house to support triage and auto-remediation at scale.

Requirements

Strong distributed systems fundamentals, including deep understanding of Kafka internals (leader election, ISR management, consumer groups, log compaction, partition rebalancing) and the ability to reason about consistency and availability trade-offs in multi-tenant environments
Kubernetes engineering proficiency, including StatefulSets, Autoscaling, PersistentVolumeClaims, and Helm; demonstrated experience debugging production Kubernetes workloads
Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform for cloud resources (IAM, object storage, messaging, block storage)
Java engineering depth; the team's core services are Java-based and require clean, performant, operationally sound implementation
Operational ownership mindset: participation in on-call rotation, production incident investigation, and systematic root cause analysis
Strong written communication skills and the ability to produce architectural designs that influence decisions across team and organizational boundaries
A related technical degree required
2- 5+ years backend software development experience
Deep knowledge of programming in Java, Golang, Python, or Ruby
Experience using and contributing to open source technology: Kafka, Spinnaker, Zookeeper
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

Responsibilities

Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on our public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba
Designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers
Using and contributing to open source technology (Spinnaker, Zookeeper, etc.)
Developing Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform
Writing microservices on containerization frameworks such as Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos
Resolving complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance
Eat, sleep, and breathe services. You have experience balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt
Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to address complex problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available