[Remote] Software Engineer II, Cloud Infrastructure - Slack
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, driving innovation and customer success. The role involves owning software projects end-to-end, architecting and building internal platforms, and delivering solutions using AWS services to enhance cloud efficiency and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Own software projects end-to-end — from scoping and design through delivery and iteration
- Architect and build a next-generation internal platform that gives engineering teams a powerful foundation to innovate quickly
- Deliver cutting-edge solutions leveraging containerization, virtualization, and a broad suite of AWS services
- Author, extend, and improve Terraform modules that power infrastructure-as-code across Slack
- Design and implement an in-house system to deploy, manage, and scale applications for service owners
- Partner directly with development teams to identify performance bottlenecks and drive cloud efficiency improvements
- Build strong, trusted relationships with service owners — serving as a go-to advisor on cloud best practices
- Champion a culture of platform efficiency by sharing knowledge, writing runbooks, and leading internal enablement sessions
- Make a measurable financial impact — driving millions of dollars in cloud cost savings annually
Skills
- U.S. Citizenship along with the ability to obtain a Top Secret Security Clearance. Please note that visa sponsorship is not available
- Genuine curiosity about how cloud infrastructure works — and a passion for sharing that knowledge with your team
- Proven ability to analyze, optimize, and improve reliability in high-traffic, production internet applications
- A strong mentoring instinct and commitment to engineering excellence: you lead by example in code reviews, testing, design docs, and debugging
- Deep, hands-on AWS experience — broad familiarity across many services with deep expertise in at least a few
- Demonstrated experience deploying cloud applications and managing infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and/or CloudFormation
- A track record of professional software development you're proud of — you can point to real-world systems you've built and improved
- 3+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering or a closely related discipline
- Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, programming languages, and information retrieval
- Proficiency in one or more functional or imperative programming languages — Python, Go, or PHP preferred
- Extensive, production-grade Terraform experience
- Hands-on experience operating and optimizing large-scale AWS environments
- Deep expertise in core AWS services such as S3, IAM, EC2, Lambda, or EKS
- AWS Professional or Specialty certification(s)
- Experience designing or operating large-scale, high-volume distributed systems
- A proven history of driving significant cloud cost reductions at scale
- Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry) and SRE practices
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
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