Software Engineering, MTS (Backend)
Salesforce · Posted Sep 21
Customer relationship management, cloud computing, enterprise software, and artificial intelligence solutions
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About the role
Salesforce's 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. Users count on the platform to be highly reliable, lightning fast, supremely secure, and to preserve all of their customizations and integrations every time we ship. This backend MTS role requires deep experience with concurrency, large scale systems, data management challenges, and designing, developing, and optimizing highly available core back-end systems, with an AI-first engineering approach and advanced prompt engineering skills.
What you will do
- Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on our public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba
- 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 (Spinnaker, Zookeeper, etc.)
- Developing Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform
- Writing microservices on containerization frameworks such as Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos
- Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow by pushing the boundaries of AI development tools (Cursor, Windsurf, Claude, OpenAI API) to deliver secure, optimized, and high-quality code.
- Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale.
- Contribute to building and maintaining the shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably.
- Critically evaluate code (Human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance.
- Resolving complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance
- Eat, sleep, and breathe services. You have experience 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
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 3+ years backend software development experience
- Deep knowledge of programming in Java, GoLang, Python, or Ruby
- Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a critical service
- A demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering. Using AI to move faster, build fluency across the stack, and contribute well beyond your core specialty.
- Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, etc.) in development workflows
- Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to write precise, structured prompts and cultivate the system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production-ready.
- Experience with Agile development methodology and Test Driven Development
- Experience with critical infrastructure services including, monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting applications
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with distributed database system and relational databases like postgres is a plus.
Benefits and support
- When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best.
- Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment.
- If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please submit a request via the Accommodations Request Form.
About Salesforce
Salesforce, Inc. is a leading global cloud-based enterprise software company specializing in customer relationship management (CRM) and artificial intelligence solutions. Through its integrated Customer 360 platform, the company provides applications for sales, customer service, marketing automation, e-commerce, and analytics. Powered by innovations like Agentforce, Salesforce helps businesses bridge human capability with autonomous AI agents to drive customer success.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 87000+ employees
- Founded
- 1999
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $25B raised
- 2026-03Post-IPO Debt$25B
- 2003-01Venture Round$1M
- 2001-06Series D$46.9M
- 1999-11Series C$13.2M
- 1999-06Series B$3.8M
Leadership
Chair, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
President & Chief Operating and Financial Officer
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Slack
President & Chief Strategy Officer
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