Lead Distributed Systems Engineer (Cloud Infra)

Lead Software Engineer

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword — it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

Salesforce has immediate opportunities for lead software engineers who want their lines of code to have significant and measurable positive impact for users. We pride ourselves on writing high-quality, maintainable code that strengthens the stability of the product and makes our lives easier. We embrace the hybrid model and celebrate the individual strengths of each team member while encouraging everyone on the team to grow into the best version of themselves.

As a lead software engineer, your job responsibilities will include: envision and build new and exciting components/frameworks in distributed filesystems in an ever-growing and evolving market technology to provide scale and efficiency. Design and develop high-quality, production-ready code that can be used by millions of users of our cloud platform. Build efficient components/algorithms on a microservice multi-tenant SaaS cloud distributed filesystem environment, code review, mentoring junior engineers, and providing technical guidance to the team.

Job duties include: research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialized utility programs. Update software or enhance existing software capabilities. Contribute to the success of the scrum team through code reviews, deployment process automation, documentation, refinement, planning, and retros. Lead, collaborate, communicate, and mentor others on the team and in the company. Work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver a roadmap to meet shared business goals. Resolve complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system scalability, robustness, and availability. Troubleshoot issues with the services that team develops and owns. Participate in the team's on-call rotation to keep services operational and highly available. Create, maintain, and share technical documentation used by engineers and other team members. Telecommuting is an option. Some travel to Salesforce offices may be required.

Required skills include: mastery in systems design and platforms with 12+ years of software development experience. Deep knowledge of designing distributed filesystems in both on-prem & cloud. Deep knowledge of object-oriented programming and other scripting languages: Java, Python along with strong SQL skills and experience with relational and non-relational databases e.g. (Postgress/Trino/).* Experience with developing SaaS products over public cloud infrastructure - AWS/Azure/GCP.* Proven experience in designing and developing distributed systems at scale. Proficiency in queues, locks, scheduling, event-driven architecture, and workload distribution, along with a deep understanding of relational database and non-relational databases.

Preferred skills include: design patterns & experience with big-data/ml and S3 hands-on experience with streaming technologies like Kafka experience with Elastic Search experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker experience working in a high-paced and rapidly growing multinational organization.

When you join Salesforce, you'll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we'll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what's possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.