Infrastructure/Service Mesh Software Engineer

Salesforce
San Francisco, Bellevue
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 197,300 - 313,700 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Service ownership","Ability to deliver under pressure","Mentorship","Driving operational excellence","Designing resilient systems"]

Build and evolve Salesforce’s service mesh and ingress gateway platform that fronts customer traffic with secure, scalable, observable L4/L7 load balancing and proxying. Help drive the design and implementation of the next-generation ingress gateway data and control planes, modernizing the stack using cloud-native primitives and leading OSS components (Envoy, Istio). Partner with distributed systems engineers to deliver reliable, self-healing infrastructure at massive scale.

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Infrastructure/Service Mesh Software Engineer

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Job Summary

Build and evolve Salesforce’s service mesh and ingress gateway platform that fronts customer traffic with secure, scalable, observable L4/L7 load balancing and proxying. Help drive the design and implementation of the next-generation ingress gateway data and control planes, modernizing the stack using cloud-native primitives and leading OSS components (Envoy, Istio). Partner with distributed systems engineers to deliver reliable, self-healing infrastructure at massive scale.
Location: San Francisco, Bellevue
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Join the Service Mesh and Ingress Gateway team to build load balancing and proxy platform capabilities for customer traffic.
  • •Drive the design and implementation of the next-generation ingress gateway data plane and control plane using cloud-native primitives.
  • •Transform and enhance the open-source-based service mesh stack (Envoy data plane, Istio control plane) to improve reliability, scalability, and features.
  • •Deliver secure, resilient, observable communication through application networking layer ownership, including north-south traffic securing and proxying.
  • •Balance live-site management with feature delivery and technical debt retirement, including participating in on-call to resolve real-time complex issues.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 197,300 - 313,700 annually
Perks:MedicalDentalVisionHealth InsurancePaid ParentalLife InsuranceDisability Insurance401kEquity

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of experience with a strong infrastructure background, including defining and driving technical strategy for infrastructure platforms (compute, networking, storage, observability).
  • •Own architecture decisions and set multi-year roadmaps to ensure scalable, reliable systems that support engineering teams.
  • •Establish paved-path patterns for reliability, performance, and operational excellence through mentoring, design reviews, and cross-team alignment on infrastructure standards.
  • •Experience with Istio and Envoy (huge plus).
  • •Proficiency with Golang, Java and/or C++ in Linux/UNIX environments, including operating mission-critical services on Kubernetes and designing for resilient distributed systems.
Experience:10+ yearsDistributed systemsPublic cloud
Skills:Service ownershipAbility to deliver under pressureMentorshipDriving operational excellenceDesigning resilient systems
Tech Stack:EnvoyIstioAWSGCPGolangGoJavaC++LinuxUNIXKubernetesTCP/IPDNSTLSTLS terminationHTTP proxiesNetwork load balancingCI/CDConfiguration managementInfrastructure as Code

Company Brief

Salesforce
Provides a leading cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform with sales, service, marketing, analytics, and integration tools that empower businesses to manage customer relationships and digital transformation at scale.
Industry: SaaS
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 1999
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