CareerPlan

Distributed Systems Software Engineer - Public Cloud (Mid/Senior/Lead/Principal)

California - San Francisco, USFull-time2026-08-09 → 2026-11-12
Based in United States

Core

Design, develop, and operate resilient distributed systems and cloud infrastructure automation tools for Salesforce's public cloud platform serving tens of millions of users.

Role type

Senior IC Distributed Systems Software Engineer (Public Cloud)

Builds

Cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, validation platforms, and microservices on AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba.

Domain

Public Cloud Infrastructure & Distributed Systems

Required skills

Java, GoLang, Python, or Ruby; Concurrency; Large scale systems; Data management; High availability design; Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform); Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos); Open source contribution; Agile/SDLC; Monitoring/Alerting/Logging; Advanced prompt engineering; AI tool fluency (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, etc.)

Preferred skills

Distributed databases (Postgres); AI agent orchestration

Technologies

AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos, Spinnaker, Zookeeper, OpenAI API, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude

Responsibilities

Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows; Critically evaluate code (Human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance; Participate in on-call rotation to address complex problems in real-time; Resolve complex technical issues to improve system availability, resilience, and performance.

Seniority

Senior/Lead/Principal, hands-on IC