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Lead Software Engineer (Distributed File Systems/Cloud Platform)

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Lead Software Engineer (Distributed File Systems/Cloud Platform)

Salesforce

Lead Software Engineer (Distributed File Systems/Cloud Platform)

Skills

Google Cloud PlatformSQL QueriesDockerPythonJavaMicroservicesPostgreSQLKafkaMachine LearningAWSKubernetesWorkdayTerraformAzure

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Contract type:

Permanent

Salary:

$172,500 – $285,800 / year

Location:

San Francisco, CA, USA

Work mode:

Onsite

Published on:

11 September 2026

What they need


  • Salesforce has immediate opportunities for Lead software engineers who want their lines of code to have significant and measurable positive impact for users
  • We pride ourselves on writing high-quality, maintainable code that strengthens the stability of the product and makes our lives easier
  • We embrace the hybrid model and celebrate the individual strengths of each team member while encouraging everyone on the team to grow into the best version of themselves
  • As a Lead Software Engineer, your job responsibilities will include: Envision and Build new and exciting components/frameworks in distributed filesystems in an ever-growing and evolving market technology to provide scale and efficiency
  • Design and Develop high-quality, production-ready code that can be used by millions of users of our cloud platform
  • Build efficient components/algorithms on a microservice multi-tenant SaaS cloud distributed filesystem environment, Code review, mentoring junior engineers, and providing technical guidance to the team
  • Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialized utility programs. Update software or enhance existing software capabilities
  • Contribute to the success of the scrum team through code reviews, deployment process automation, documentation, refinement, planning, and retros
  • Lead, collaborate, communicate, and mentor others on the team and in the company
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver a roadmap to meet shared business goals
  • Resolve complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system scalability, robustness, and availability
  • Troubleshoot issues with the services that team develops and owns
  • Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to keep services operational and highly available
  • Create, maintain, and share technical documentation used by engineers and other team members

Benefits

  • Medical Care
  • Life Insurance
  • Retirement Savings
  • Employee Assistance Programs
  • With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year- Experience with developing SAAS products over public cloud infrastructure - AWS/Azure/GCP
  • Deep knowledge of object-oriented programming and other scripting languages: Java, Python along with Strong SQL skills and experience with relational and non-relational databases e.g. (Postgress/Trino/)
  • Proven experience in designing and developing distributed systems at scale. - Proficiency in queues, locks, scheduling, event-driven architecture, and workload distribution, along with a deep understanding of relational database and non-relational databases
  • Deep knowledge of designing distributed filesystems in both on-prem & cloud
  • A deeper understanding of software development best practices and demonstrate leadership skills
  • Design patterns & Experience with Big-Data/ML and S3 Hands-on experience with Streaming technologies like Kafka Experience with Elastic Search
  • Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker
  • Experience working in a high-paced and rapidly growing multinational organization
  • Mastery in Systems design & Mastery of programming language(s) and platforms 8+ years of software development experience- End Date: August 31, 2026

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