[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure @Salesforce

Role Description

Lead software projects end-to-end — from scoping and architecture through delivery, iteration, and long-term ownership.

• Architect and build a next-generation internal platform that gives engineering teams a powerful foundation to innovate quickly.
• Deliver cutting-edge solutions leveraging containerization, virtualization, and a broad suite of AWS services.
• Author, extend, and improve Terraform modules that power infrastructure-as-code across Slack.
• Design and implement an in-house system to deploy, manage, and scale applications for service owners.
• Partner directly with development teams to identify performance bottlenecks and drive cloud efficiency improvements.
• Build strong, trusted relationships with service owners — serving as a go-to advisor on cloud architecture and best practices.
• Champion a culture of platform efficiency by sharing knowledge, writing runbooks, and leading internal enablement sessions.
• Mentor and grow junior engineers, scaling the impact of the team through thoughtful technical leadership.
• Make a measurable financial impact — driving millions of dollars in cloud cost savings annually.
• Participate in on-call rotation and collaborate with our operations team to triage and resolve production incidents with urgency and precision.
• Build observability and introspection tooling that gives engineers deep, real-time visibility into system health and bottlenecks.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering or a closely related discipline, working in a collaborative team environment.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, programming languages, and information retrieval.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience.
• Proficiency in one or more functional or imperative programming languages — Python, Go, or PHP preferred.
• Hands-on experience with software engineering, scripting, automation, and orchestration tools (e.g., Bash, Chef, Jenkins, Terraform).
• Extensive, production-grade experience provisioning, configuring, and maintaining AWS environments.
• Experience managing large-scale Kubernetes systems (EKS or Bare Metal).

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency (Green Card holder). We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role.
• Genuine curiosity about how cloud infrastructure works — and a passion for sharing that knowledge with your team.
• Proven ability to analyze, optimize, and improve reliability in high-traffic, production internet applications.
• A strong mentoring instinct and commitment to engineering excellence: you lead by example in code reviews, testing, design docs, and debugging.
• Deep, hands-on AWS experience — broad familiarity across many services with deep expertise in at least a few.
• Demonstrated experience deploying cloud applications and managing infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Strong ability to troubleshoot and debug complex issues across infrastructure, applications, and distributed systems.
• A track record of professional software development you're proud of — you can point to real-world systems you've built, scaled, and improved.
• Experience working with Kubernetes (K8s).

Benefits

• Time off programs.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Mental health support.
• Paid parental leave.
• Life and disability insurance.
• 401(k) plan.
• Employee stock purchasing program.