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Mid/Senior Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure

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Software Engineering, Other Engineering
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Dec 9, 2025

Description

*****This candidate must be a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized) who does not hold dual citizenship and agrees to complete a U.S. federal government Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) for a Moderate Public Trust position.

Our Public Cloud engineering teams are responsible for innovating and maintaining a large scale distributed systems engineering platform that ships hundreds of features to production for tens of millions of users across all industries every day. Our users count on our platform to be highly reliable, lightning fast, supremely secure, and to preserve all of their customizations and integrations every time we ship. You will need deep experience with concurrency, large scale systems, proficiency with solving real-world data management challenges, a strong understanding of how to craft solutions that are highly available, and a proven ability to design, develop, and optimize the core back-end systems.

Your Impact:

  • 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

Required Skills:

  • 2+ years backend software development experience

  • Deep knowledge of programming in Python, Go, Java

  • Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a critical service

  • Experience with Agile development methodology and Test Driven Development

For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.