Software Engineer II, Service Network

Salesforce

Software Engineer II developing scalable and secure service mesh infrastructure for Slack. Collaborating with engineering teams to ensure reliability and performance across the platform.

Posted 5/29/2026full-timeHerndon • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDNSGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesLinuxMicroservicesPythonRubyTCP/IPUnix

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Contribute to the design, development, and operation of scalable, reliable, and secure service mesh infrastructure that enables service-to-service communication across the platform.
Implement and support service mesh capabilities including service discovery, observability, traffic routing, and security features such as mTLS and policy enforcement.
Assist in troubleshooting production issues across distributed systems, Kubernetes environments, networking, and Linux-based infrastructure.
Participate in improving platform reliability, performance, and operational efficiency through automation and tooling.
Contribute enhancements and fixes to internal tooling and, where appropriate, open-source technologies such as Envoy.
Support incident response and operational excellence efforts to help maintain platform availability and service-level objectives (SLOs).
Stay current with emerging cloud-native and service mesh technologies and apply best practices to improve the platform.

Requirements

What you’ll need

U.S. Citizenship. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role.
4+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or site reliability engineering.
Ability to independently drive projects and contribute to technical design discussions.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
Experience working with distributed systems, microservices, or cloud-native applications.
Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering teams.
Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages such as Go, Python, Ruby or C/C++.
Experience with configuring and operating service mesh on larger-scale production operations, focusing on stability, scalability, and performance limits of web services
Experience with TCP/IP, DNS, and network-related protocols
Experience with Linux / Unix operating on high volume systems at scale
Experience with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis, distributed systems and software development.

Benefits

Comp & perks

time off programs
medical
dental
vision
mental health support
paid parental leave
life and disability insurance
401(k)
employee stock purchasing program

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Hard Skills & Tools

KubernetesAWSGCPGoPythonRubyC/C++service meshTCP/IPLinux

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationproject managementtechnical design discussions