Senior Lead Distributed Systems Software Engineer, Cloud Infra
Salesforce
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This role pays more than 76% of similar roles. Most pay $169,550–$214,812 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $215k versus about $192k for comparable roles.
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Salesforce is the world''s leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform, offering cloud-based software for sales, service, marketing, analytics, and application development. Industry: Enterprise Software & Cloud Computing
Salesforce currently has 106 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $148,500–$260,100 across 98 roles with salary data.
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The Distributed Systems Software Engineer - Public Cloud (Mid/Senior/Lead/Principal) joins the Public Cloud engineering team to innovate and maintain a large-scale distributed systems platform. You will design, develop, and operate resilient back-end systems across thousands of compute nodes while delivering cloud infrastructure automation tools and workflows on platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba. Day-to-day responsibilities include managing microservices using Kubernetes and Docker, writing Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform, and contributing to open-source technologies like Spinnaker and Zookeeper. The role requires proficiency in Java, GoLang, Python, or Ruby, alongside advanced prompt engineering skills to integrate AI agents into human workflows. You will solve complex data management challenges and ensure high availability for a multi-tenant platform while utilizing tools such as Cursor, Windsurf, and the OpenAI API to build production-grade software within an Agile environment.
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