Salesforce · 1 month ago
Software Engineering Architect - Platform
California - San Francisco
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$252K/yr - $384K/yr
15+ years expSalesforce is the #1 AI CRM, driving customer success through innovation and technology. They are seeking a highly seasoned Software Engineering Architect to lead the design and scaling of a large-scale Kubernetes platform, ensuring its robustness, security, and reliability while collaborating with top-tier engineers.
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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
Qualification
Required
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
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
Benefits
Time off programs
Medical
Dental
Vision
Mental health support
Paid parental leave
Life and disability insurance
401(k)
Employee stock purchasing program
Company
Salesforce
Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$65.38MKey Investors
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2022-10-18Post Ipo Equity
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Arundhati Bhattacharya
Chairman & Ceo Salesforce India
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