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Software Engineering Architect - Platform
Salesforce, Inc..
- United States
- United States
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Platform Strategy & Design: 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. Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Integration: Define and implement platform tooling and APIs to optimize the SDLC for thousands of microservices, with a focus on application development and deployment pipelines. Scale and Performance: 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. Technical Leadership: Act as a subject matter expert and technical leader, guiding platform implementation teams and ensuring alignment with best practices in platform and software engineering. Microservices Architecture: Define and evangelize resilient software design patterns and best practices for building, deploying, and managing thousands of microservices on the container platform. Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner closely with infrastructure, security, and application development teams to integrate platform components seamlessly and define clear interfaces for engineering efficiency. System Reliability: Design systems that are inherently resilient, self-healing, and easy to monitor and troubleshoot, driving down operational complexity for our application engineers. Essential Qualifications
Experience: 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. Deep Kubernetes Expertise:
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
Programming Skills: Deep proficiency in Golang (Go) for developing and extending infrastructure systems, APIs, and platform tooling (required for infrastructure development). Infrastructure Systems: Extensive background in infrastructure development, including cloud environments, networking, storage, and infrastructure-as-code principles. Microservices: Expert knowledge of microservices architecture, service mesh technologies, API design principles, and inter-service communication patterns. Security & Reliability: 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. Why Join Us?
Real Scale: Work on platform challenges that few organizations ever encounter, powering mission-critical software and services globally. Influence: Directly shape the future and direction of our core container platform strategy. Talent: Collaborate daily with some of the industry's most talented and passionate software and platform engineers. *LI-Y
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- English
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