Salesforce is looking to solve the problem of building a highly scalable and distributed load balancing and gateway service to front all customer traffic coming into Salesforce, and to transform the current software stack to adopt more cloud native primitives to build a more reliable, scalable, and feature-rich service mesh.
Requirements
- 2+ years of development experience
- Proficiency with Golang, Java and/or C++ in a Linux/UNIX data center environment
- Experience in operating large scale cluster management systems (e.g. Kubernetes) of a mission critical service
- Strong knowledge of network technologies, such as TCP/IP, DNS, TLS termination, HTTP proxies, network load balancing, etc.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms
- Working knowledge of CI/CD, configuration management and Infrastructure as Code principles (e.g. Spinnaker, Terraform)
- Experience with Agile development methodology (e.g. Scrum) and Test-Driven Development, with attention to code quality, and delivering secure code
Responsibilities
- Drive the design and implementation of the next generation Ingress Gateway data plane and control plane
- Transform the current software stack to adopt more cloud native primitives to build a more reliable, scalable, and feature-rich service mesh
- Develop and manage the Salesforce API Platform’s runtime plane that applies API policies, handles requests, and enforces security
- Execute sophisticated routing rules to the appropriate upstream services
- Build a dedicated extensible infrastructure layer facilitating service-to-service and customer-to-service communication via proxies managed by the control plane
- Contribute to the development of the Service Mesh and Ingress Gateway load balancing and proxy platform
- Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to address complex problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available
Other
- Passion for service ownership, building reliable, and self-healing services
- Proven ability to work in complex team environments and deliver under pressure with dependency constraints
- Ability to drive and deliver thin slices of end-to-end functionality on a regular cadence with data-driven feedback loops
- Participation in the team’s on-call rotation to address complex problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
