Software Engineering SMTS

Description Software Engineer SMTS The Ajna team builds and operates Salesforce's internal Kafka-as-a-Service platform — the distributed messaging backbone that powers real-time data pipelines, alerting, analytics, and event streaming across every major Salesforce product and cloud environment. The platform serves a broad ecosystem of internal engineering teams across commercial, GovCloud, and sovereign cloud environments globally. This team pursues principled, high-impact architectural evolution with direct consequences at production scale. The team operates with distributed coverage across Pacific and India Standard Time zones, maintains continuous on-call coverage, and is actively invested in intelligent automation — including AI-powered tooling built in-house to support triage and auto-remediation at scale. What We Are Looking For Strong distributed systems fundamentals, including deep understanding of Kafka internals (leader election, ISR management, consumer groups, log compaction, partition rebalancing) and the ability to reason about consistency and availability trade-offs in multi-tenant environments Kubernetes engineering proficiency, including StatefulSets, Autoscaling, PersistentVolumeClaims, and Helm; demonstrated experience debugging production Kubernetes workloads Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform for cloud resources (IAM, object storage, messaging, block storage) Java engineering depth; the team's core services are Java-based and require clean, performant, operationally sound implementation Operational ownership mindset: participation in on-call rotation, production incident investigation, and systematic root cause analysis Strong written communication skills and the ability to produce architectural designs that influence decisions across team and organizational boundaries Your Impact Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on our public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba Designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers Using and contributing to open source technology (Spinnaker, Zookeeper, etc.) Developing Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform Writing microservices on containerization frameworks such as Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos Resolving complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance Eat, sleep, and breathe services. You have experience balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to address complex problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available Required Skills A related technical degree required 2- 5+ years backend software development experience Deep knowledge of programming in Java, Golang, Python, or Ruby Experience using and contributing to open source technology: Kafka, Spinnaker, Zookeeper Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a critical service Experience with Agile development methodology and Test Driven Development Experience with critical infrastructure services including, monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting applications Benefits & Perks Check out our benefits site which explains our various benefits, including wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more. Salesforce Information Check out our Salesforce Engineering Site.

Build and operate Salesforce's internal Kafka-as-a-Service platform to power real-time data pipelines and event streaming. Develop resilient distributed systems and cloud infrastructure automation tools across AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba.

Requires a technical degree and 2-5+ years of backend software development experience with deep knowledge of Java and distributed systems. Proficiency in Kubernetes and Terraform for infrastructure management is essential.

• Wellbeing Reimbursement • Parental Leave • Adoption Assistance • Fertility Benefits

• KubernetesPreferred
• GoPreferred
• DockerPreferred
• AgilePreferred
• JavaPreferred
• RubyPreferred
• TerraformPreferred
• PythonPreferred

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• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Java
• Distributed Systems
• Infrastructure-as-Code
• Golang
• Python
• Ruby
• Zookeeper
• Spinnaker
• Docker
• Agile
• Test Driven Development
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Microservices

• Software
• Technology
• Engineering
• Data & Analytics

Minimum education

Bachelor’s degree

Minimum experience

2+ years

Apply by

Aug 20, 2026

Posting language

English

Working hours

40 hours per week

Seniority

Mid-Senior level