Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability

Salesforce

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Francisco, CABoston, MANew York, NYSeattle, WABurlington, VTMcLean, VA
Salary
$148,500–$223,900 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
7 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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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

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability

As a Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability (Agentforce Ops), you will join an agile embedded reliability team to ensure the Agentforce Operations platform functions as a reliable AI-powered engine. You will focus on production excellence, performance tuning, and infrastructure automation to transition systems from startup-speed architectures to global-scale enterprise solutions. Your daily work involves owning the reliability roadmap, refining infrastructure strategies, and managing infrastructure-as-code environments. You will utilize Golang, TypeScript, or Python alongside Kubernetes, Terraform/OpenTofu, and AWS/GCP/Azure. Key responsibilities include SQL optimization, API latency reduction, and managing AI/ML infrastructure for real-time supply chain insights. You will also use AI tools like Claude Code and Codex to automate operational tasks while maintaining observability stacks and microservice orchestration using Temporal and Istio.

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What you'll do

  • Own the reliability roadmap to transition systems from startup architectures to global-scale enterprise solutions.
  • Partner with senior engineers to refine infrastructure strategy, capacity planning, and bottleneck identification.
  • Maintain and evolve automated environments using an infrastructure-as-plugins model.
  • Support AI/ML infrastructure scaling by managing GPU resources and data pipelines for real-time insights.
  • Lead the hardening of the observability stack to build proactive incident prevention tooling and telemetry.
  • Perform deep-dive performance engineering on SQL optimization, API latency, and cross-service communication.
  • Use AI tools to automate routine operational tasks and accelerate infrastructure delivery.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience in SRE, Production Engineering, or Backend Engineering with a focus on operations and scale.
  • Experience taking a product through a high-growth "1 to 100" phase involving technical debt and architectural shifts.
  • Ability to write and review production-level code in Golang, TypeScript, or Python.
  • Strong proficiency in Kubernetes, Terraform/OpenTofu, and AWS/GCP/Azure.
  • Demonstrated experience with instrumenting applications and platforms with SLO-based monitoring and alerting.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, including debugging microservices, databases, and AI agents.
  • Demonstrated ability to use modern AI development tools to automate operational tasks and build reliable systems.
  • M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience (preferred).

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