Principal Software Engineer / PMTS - Backend - Distributed Systems

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Role Description

Are you passionate in operating infrastructure at scale? Do you like working with Kubernetes clusters and microservices? Here is an exciting opportunity for you!

Our team provides Kubernetes platform-as-a-service to other teams who are building microservices at Salesforce. Over the next year we’ll be expanding our Kubernetes footprint by 1000s of clusters. And you could be an instrumental piece in this transformation. As part of your job you will be working on open source technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, Argo and Spinnaker and will have the chance to contribute back and shape the future of these technologies.

We run one of the largest Kubernetes fleets in the industry and have been early adopters of the technology. Our mission is to empower service owners to focus on the unique value of their service, without having to focus on infrastructure, increasing developer agility and decreasing operational costs and complexity. The FKP team is pivotal to the success of the company with the overall strategy of the company to move to Hyperforce powered by FKP providing underlying infrastructure. We manage the platform that underlies Sales, Service, Commerce, Mulesoft and Tableau.

Responsibilities

As an FKP engineer you will be responsible for designing and implementing the software for managing Kubernetes clusters at scale. You will be creating design documents, presenting to an audience, and then implementing your designs. A large part of you job will also include evaluating and integrating open source technologies into the FKP software stack.

Required Skills

Comprehension in the following programming languages or equivalents

• Golang
• Python
• Bash (Minimal shell knowledge is required, but familiarity is required)

Comprehension and hands-on experience in the following Technologies

• 5+ years experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration
• 2+ years experience with AWS services. Especially IAM and cloud networking
• Familiarity with Terraform
• CI/CD services. eg. Jenkins, Argo, Spinnaker
• Observability tools. eg. Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ElasticSearch, Argus

Unleash Your Potential

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