Backend Distributed System Engineer LMTS at Salesforce

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Job Category: Software Engineering

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About Salesforce

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Join Our Security Software Engineering Team

Our team builds and operates secure, scalable, cloud-native, fault-tolerant systems to identify, classify, and scan for cloud misconfigurations across Salesforce’s extensive infrastructure. Enhance and maintain customer trust in Salesforce's products across multiple public cloud platforms and our network infrastructure. This role offers a unique opportunity to learn from top industry experts and integrate that knowledge into your engineering skill set.

Your Impact

This role is an excellent opportunity for ambitious engineers seeking technical growth in distributed systems development, data processing, and security. Your contributions will significantly impact the CSO’s security goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement highly available, resilient, scalable distributed systems to monitor cloud misconfigurations across Salesforce’s public cloud resources.
• Build observability and remediation services to help Salesforce’s engineers, leaders, and internal customers assess and address security risks.
• Work in a fast-paced, agile development environment, including daily scrums.
• Deliver new features to meet increasing product demands.
• Participate in architectural, code, and operational reviews to support the team’s engineering excellence.
• Work cross-functionally with product management and other partner teams on large-scale projects impacting the company.
• Adapt quickly to changing requirements, priorities, and strategies.

Required Skills

• 8+ years of industry experience with a M.Sc/B.E degree.
• 4+ years of deep understanding of object-oriented programming languages (Java, Go, Python) — Python & GoLang preferred.
• Experience building high-performance, highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems using native public cloud stacks.
• Expertise in building ETL pipelines with frameworks like Apache Airflow, Kafka, and Spark.
• Experience with AWS services.
• Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL Databases.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Scrum or other agile development methodologies, with a focus on code quality and secure code delivery.
• Self-starter, independent, and driven with the EQ to thrive in a collaborative, outcome-focused environment.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with AI/ML.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Azure services.
• Knowledge of security fundamentals, including authentication/authorization frameworks (SSO, SAML, OAuth), secure transport (TLS), and identity management (certificates, PKI).
• Expertise in observability frameworks like Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus.

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