Senior Developer Productivity Engineer -smts

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Redwood City, CA

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Member of Technical Staff (SMTS) for their global engineering platform team, focusing on Developer Productivity and CI/CD. The role involves reducing developer friction, improving tooling, and accelerating developer velocity through data-driven methodologies. Responsibilities include designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Harness CI and Jenkins, developing internal developer tooling, optimizing build infrastructure on Kubernetes, and ensuring security and compliance through automated analysis. The role also requires expertise in build system optimization, infrastructure-as-code, version control strategies, and incident response for CI/CD failures.

What you'd actually do

  1. Identify, measure, and eliminate systemic friction in the developer lifecycle — including slow builds, flaky tests, complex tooling, and inefficient workflows — using data-driven methodologies (DORA, SPACE) to measurably improve developer velocity.
  2. Design, implement, and maintain robust Continuous Integration and Delivery pipelines using Harness CI and Jenkins, ensuring high availability, low latency, and consistent throughput across the global CI/CD ecosystem.
  3. Develop high-performance internal developer tooling, dashboards, and CLI utilities using modern frontend technologies (e.g., Svelte) alongside backend services — making it easier and faster for engineers to build, test, and ship.
  4. Build and optimize software-defined infrastructure for centralized build repositories and configuration management across on-prem and cloud environments, following Salesforce's infrastructure standards.
  5. Implement and optimize containerized build/test workloads on Kubernetes (EKS), including resource tuning, autoscaling configurations (e.g., Karpenter/KEDA), and ephemeral agent lifecycle management.

Skills

Required

  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD
  • Developer Productivity
  • Build Systems
  • AWS
  • Jenkins
  • Harness CI
  • Ansible
  • Chef
  • Python
  • Java
  • Bash
  • Git

Nice to have

  • Svelte
  • ELK Stack
  • Datadog
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Veracode
  • Maven
  • Gradle
  • Ant
  • JFrog Artifactory
  • Sonatype Nexus
  • Groovy
  • Perforce
  • Airbyte
  • Faros.ai
  • LinearB