Software Engineer, DNS & Cloud Infrastructure
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 3, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 16, 2026. Salesforce scores B on the Alion truth index.
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Enterprise Technology & InfrastructureJob Details
About Salesforce
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword - it’s a way of life. 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? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.
The Experience
Our Public Cloud engineering teams are responsible for innovating and maintaining a large scale distributed systems engineering platform that ships hundreds of features to production for tens of millions of users across all industries every day. Our users count on our platform to be highly reliable, lightning fast, supremely secure, and to preserve all of their customizations and integrations every time we ship. You will need deep experience with concurrency, large scale systems, proficiency with solving real-world data management challenges, a strong understanding of how to craft solutions that are highly available, and a proven ability to design, develop, and optimize the core back-end systems.
What You'll Actually Be Doing
Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on our public cloud platforms
Designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers
Using and contributing to open source technology
Developing Infrastructure-as-Code
Writing microservices on containerization frameworks such as Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos
Resolving complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance
Balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt
Participate in the team's on-call rotation to address complex problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available
You're Our Person If You Have:
Minimum of 3 years of backend software development experience (Python) working with Cloud Architecture
In-depth, hands-on experience with Linux Systems Administration and Troubleshooting, servers, and Cloud architecture. Good knowledge of Linux internals.
Proven professional work experience with Python. In-depth understanding of OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and concurrency.
Public cloud engineering on GCP, AWS, and or Azure platforms. Cloud provisioning, infrastructure, and migration at cloud scale.
Use of AI assisted development tools to automate DNS and infrastructure management.
Solid understanding of configuring, deploying, managing, and maintaining large cloud-hosted systems.
Experience with container and orchestration systems like Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
Experience with infrastructure automation tools like Splunk, Puppet, Spinnaker, Terraform, git, etc.
Strong understanding of fundamental network technologies like DNS, Load Balancing, SSL, TCP/IP, SQL, HTTP, Switches, Routers.
CI/CD experience with tools like Jenkins, and Travis CI.
Implementation experience of large infrastructure projects.
A continuous learner, a critical thinker, and a team player with excellent communication skills.
Embrace a culture and work environment that promotes diversity and inclusion.
Configuration management with open-source tools, ideally Puppet, Chef, Salt, or Ansible.
Experience maintaining monitoring platforms like Grafana.
Experience with Agile development methodology and Test Driven Development
Even Better If You Have:
Experience using AWS Route 53.
Working in high-availability, 24x7x365 large-scale multi-datacenter environment
Highly skilled in packet analysis, network analysis tools, troubleshooting, and analytical fault diagnosis.
Security hardening of network infrastructure, such as DNSSEC
Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance andbe your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you cando your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future - but to redefine what’s possible - for yourself, for AI, and the world.
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In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $117,200 - $176,700 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $141,200 - $194,200 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.