Sr. Software Engineer, DNS and Cloud Infrastructure

Salesforce•San Francisco, CA

4d•$148,500 - $246,000

About The Position

Salesforce is seeking a senior software engineer for its Public Cloud engineering teams, which build and maintain a large-scale distributed systems platform serving tens of millions of users. The role focuses on designing, developing, and operating highly available, secure, and performant back-end systems and cloud infrastructure across multiple data centers. The engineer will build automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms; develop infrastructure as code and containerized microservices; and contribute to open-source technology. The position balances live-site operations, feature delivery, and technical-debt reduction, and includes participation in an on-call rotation.

Requirements

At least 5 years of backend software development experience using Python and working with cloud architecture.
Hands-on experience with Linux systems administration and troubleshooting, servers, and cloud architecture; good knowledge of Linux internals.
Professional Python experience and an in-depth understanding of object-oriented programming, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and concurrency.
Public cloud engineering experience with GCP, AWS, and/or Azure, including cloud provisioning, infrastructure, and migration at cloud scale.
Experience using AI-assisted development tools to automate DNS and infrastructure management.
Understanding of configuring, deploying, managing, and maintaining large cloud-hosted systems.
Experience with container and orchestration systems such as Kubernetes and Docker.
Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Splunk, Puppet, Spinnaker, Terraform, and Git.
Strong understanding of network technologies including DNS, load balancing, SSL, TCP/IP, SQL, HTTP, switches, and routers.
CI/CD experience with tools such as Jenkins and Travis CI.
Experience implementing large infrastructure projects.
Continuous learning, critical thinking, teamwork, and excellent communication skills.
Willingness to embrace a culture and work environment that promotes diversity and inclusion.
Configuration management experience with open-source tools, ideally Puppet, Chef, Salt, or Ansible.
Experience maintaining monitoring platforms such as Grafana.
Experience with Agile development methodology and Test Driven Development.

Nice To Haves

Experience using AWS Route 53.
Experience working in a high-availability, 24x7x365, large-scale, multi-data-center environment.
High skill in packet analysis, network analysis tools, troubleshooting, and analytical fault diagnosis.
Experience with security hardening of network infrastructure, such as DNSSEC.

Responsibilities

Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on public cloud platforms.
Design, develop, debug, and operate resilient distributed systems across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers.
Use and contribute to open-source technology.
Develop Infrastructure-as-Code.
Write microservices using containerization frameworks such as Kubernetes, Docker, and Mesos.
Resolve complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance.
Balance 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.