Software Engineering Smts / Mts | Platform Engineering (backend, Kubernetes & Cloud)

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Bangalore, India

Salesforce is seeking a Backend Software Engineer for their Platform Engineering team. This role involves building and scaling components for their cloud platform, focusing on microservices, Kubernetes, and distributed systems. The engineer will contribute to all phases of the SDLC, ensuring high-quality, production-ready code for millions of users. While the company emphasizes AI, this specific role is focused on the underlying platform engineering rather than direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build new and exciting components in an ever-growing and evolving market technology to provide scale and efficiency.
  2. Develop high-quality, production-ready code that can be used by millions of users of our cloud platform.
  3. Make design decisions on the basis of performance, scalability, and future expansion.
  4. Work in a Hybrid Engineering model and contribute to all phases of SDLC including design, implementation, code reviews, automation, and testing of the features.
  5. Build efficient components/algorithms on a microservice multi-tenant SaaS cloud environment

Skills

Required

  • Mastery of multiple programming languages and platforms
  • 7+ years of software development experience
  • Deep knowledge of object-oriented programming and other scripting languages: Java, Python, Scala C#, Go, Node.JS and C++
  • Experience with developing SAAS products over public cloud infrastructure - AWS/Azure/GCP
  • Hands on Experience in Kubernetes / micro services / deployment methods
  • Proven experience designing and developing distributed systems at scale
  • Proficiency in queues, locks, scheduling, event-driven architecture, and workload distribution
  • Understanding of CI/CD tools and integrations of these tools with monitoring dashboards like Prometheus / Grafana
  • A deeper understanding of software development best practices and demonstrate leadership skills
  • Degree or equivalent relevant experience required

Nice to have

  • Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, spinnaker ArgoCD
  • Hands-on experience with hosted / non-hosted k8s platforms in public clouds like GKE / EKS/ AKS
  • Experience with AI tools(Claude Code, Codex)/ ML models
  • Experience working in a high-paced and rapidly growing multinational organization

What the JD emphasized

  • 7+ years of software development experience