Salesforce is looking for a Software Engineering Architect to lead the design and scaling of one of the world's largest Kubernetes deployments, aiming to architect a robust, secure, and highly reliable container platform that powers thousands of microservices and other services across diverse environments.
Requirements
- Expert-level understanding of Kubernetes internals, architecture, networking, security, and operation at extreme scale.
- Proven experience in designing and scaling Kubernetes deployments supporting thousands of services
- Deep proficiency in Golang (Go) for developing and extending infrastructure systems, APIs, and platform tooling (required for infrastructure development).
- Extensive background in infrastructure development, including cloud environments, networking, storage, and infrastructure-as-code principles.
- Expert knowledge of microservices architecture, service mesh technologies, API design principles, and inter-service communication patterns.
- A strong track record of designing platforms that prioritize security, observability (logging, metrics, tracing), and operational reliability for both the platform and the applications it hosts.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architectural design and evolution of our large-scale, enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform to ensure it meets requirements for scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
- Define and implement platform tooling and APIs to optimize the SDLC for thousands of microservices, with a focus on application development and deployment pipelines.
- Architect solutions to handle massive, ever-increasing service and infrastructure scale, ensuring high availability and low latency across the deployment, paying close attention to performance tuning.
- Act as a subject matter expert and technical leader, guiding platform implementation teams and ensuring alignment with best practices in platform and software engineering.
- Define and evangelize resilient software design patterns and best practices for building, deploying, and managing thousands of microservices on the container platform.
- Partner closely with infrastructure, security, and application development teams to integrate platform components seamlessly and define clear interfaces for engineering efficiency.
- Design systems that are inherently resilient, self-healing, and easy to monitor and troubleshoot, driving down operational complexity for our application engineers.
Other
- 15+ years of progressive experience in hands-on software engineering and/or platform engineering, with a significant focus on building and scaling complex, high-volume distributed systems.
- The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.
- Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era?
- Collaborate with top-tier engineers, and directly influence the strategic direction of our core container platform across multiple substrates.
- Collaborate daily with some of the industry's most talented and passionate software and platform engineers.
