Salesforce

Principal Engineer, Compute Infrastructure

Salesforce

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $192,200 - $306,600 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSChefCloudDNSEC2GoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPuppetPythonTCP/IPTerraform

About the role

  • Design, build, and maintain our core compute infrastructure, primarily using Kubernetes and EC2.
  • Work on our infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform to manage and provision resources.
  • Automate configuration management with Chef to ensure consistency across our fleet.
  • Manage our internal software packages using Aptly.
  • Collaborate with service owners to provide support and guidance on best practices for using our platform.
  • Participate in on-call rotations to support our production environment and respond to incidents.
  • Help us research and implement new technologies as we expand into a multi-cloud environment, including exploring multi-architecture support for our containerized workloads.

Requirements

  • Proven experience managing production-grade infrastructure with Kubernetes and EC2.
  • Experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.
  • Proficiency in configuration management tools like Chef (or similar, such as Puppet or Ansible).
  • Experience with package management, ideally with Aptly.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms beyond AWS, particularly GCP, is a plus.
  • Strong scripting skills in a language like Python, Bash, or Go.
  • Solid understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, etc.) and security best practices.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and a collaborative attitude.
Benefits
  • time off programs
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • mental health support
  • paid parental leave
  • life and disability insurance
  • 401(k)
  • employee stock purchasing program

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
KubernetesEC2TerraformChefAptlyPythonBashGonetworking conceptssecurity best practices
Soft skills
problem-solvingcollaborative attitude