About Salesforce
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. The world of work is changing, and the company is looking for Trailblazers passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Agentforce is the future of AI.
The Experience
Salesforce is leading the AI and Agentic revolution as the world's #1 AI CRM, which demands network infrastructure that's fast, secure, intelligent, and relentlessly reliable. The Edge CDN team is building a high-powered backbone that seamlessly connects millions of users to the platform, powering next-generation autonomous AI agents across clouds, data centers, and continents. As the platform expands to support fully autonomous, self-healing, and self-optimizing operations with single-click deployments to tens of thousands of global nodes, the team continuously pushes the limits of global scale and performance to deliver exceptional user experiences.
Salesforce is seeking a visionary, high-energy backend Java engineer to lead the design, architecture, and deployment of cutting-edge CDN services. You'll build real-time analytics and intelligent automation that enable systems to self-heal and self-optimize in real time, ensuring complex, agentic AI-driven workflows execute seamlessly at scale.
If you get energized by building ultra-resilient distributed systems, driving live-site excellence alongside rapid feature innovation, and running mission-critical multi-cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS/Azure/Alibaba) for the AI era, this team wants you.
What You'll Actually Be Doing
•Proven track record of designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems
•Eat, sleep, and breathe services: experience balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt
•Experience with managing large, complex systems in the cloud
•Resolve complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance
•Passionate about building autonomous, self-healing systems that optimize performance for AI-heavy traffic patterns
•Capable of driving and delivering thin slices of functionality on a regular cadence with data-driven feedback loops in an agile environment
•Be passionate about automation
•Create, maintain and share technical documentation used by engineers and other team members
You're Our Person If...
•10+ years of hands-on, battle-tested engineering experience
•Deep mastery of object-oriented programming with a strong focus on Java
•Solid, reliable expertise in modern database technologies
•Enthusiasm for Agile development workflows, continuous integration, and comprehensive testing
•Passion for leveraging telemetry and metrics to champion operational excellence
•In-depth fluency in design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and high-concurrency systems
•Proven track record engineering top-tier public cloud platforms across GCP, AWS, Azure, and/or Alibaba
•Hands-on expertise with cutting-edge container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, Docker, Helios, Fleet, or Mesos
•Drive to own and operate mission-critical infrastructure services at scale, including monitoring, alerting, logging, and performance analytics
Even Better If...
•Active contributions or excitement for open-source projects
•Strong background in SOAP/REST APIs and clean, scalable API design
•Solid grasp of core networking protocols and technologies: Nginx, Envoy, TCP/IP, DNS, TLS termination, and HTTP proxies, AWS Cloudfront, Google CDN, Cloudflare, Akamai
•Familiarity with high-throughput big data stack tools like Spark, Kafka, and Druid
•Experience streamlining robust CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins
Compensation
The typical base salary range for this position is $172,500 - $260,100 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $207,800 - $285,800 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.
