Salesforce
Lead Software Engineer- Distributed Systems
$172K–$286K
California - San Francisco · Office Tech-Flexible · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of hands-on engineering experience.
About the job
Leads the design, development, and operation of resilient global CDN services, including real-time analytics and automation for self-healing and self-optimizing infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Design, build, deploy, and operate distributed CDN services across cloud infrastructure.
- Improve availability, resilience, and performance through monitoring, analytics, and automation.
- Balance live-site operations, feature delivery, and technical debt; document and share engineering practices.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of hands-on engineering experience.
- Strong Java and object-oriented programming expertise, plus modern database knowledge.
- Expertise in distributed systems, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and high-concurrency systems.
- Experience with public cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure, and/or Alibaba) and container orchestration tools.
Nice to have
- Open-source contributions or interest; SOAP/REST API design experience.
- Networking/CDN technologies or high-throughput data tools such as Spark, Kafka, and Druid.
Pay
$172,500 - $260,100 annually (USD, base salary); $207,800 - $285,800 annually (USD, base salary)
Tools
Java, GCP, AWS, Azure, Alibaba, Kubernetes, Docker, Helios
AI focus
Builds real-time analytics and intelligent automation for self-healing and self-optimizing CDN systems supporting AI-driven workflows and AI-heavy traffic. Salesforce also states that it uses AI tools to assist with resume assessment; humans make hiring decisions.
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