Principal Software Engineer (PMTS) - Backend - Infrastructure - Distributed Systems - Bangalore

Salesforce is hiring a Principal Software Engineer (PMTS) - Backend - Infrastructure - Distributed Systems - Bangalore in India - Bangalore.

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Responsibilities

As a Backend Principal Engineer, your job responsibilities will include:

• Design and evolve distributed control-plane systems governing public cloud environments at enterprise scale.

• Build automation frameworks, validation platforms, and policy enforcement engines across AWS, GCP, and Hyperforce.

• Develop secure Infrastructure-as-Code solutions for multi-cloud provisioning and guardrails.

• Make architectural decisions grounded in performance, scalability, availability, and blast-radius control.

• Design, develop, debug, and operate resilient services running across multiple regions and thousands of compute nodes.

• Optimize concurrency, workload distribution, and data management at scale.

• Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and performance under heavy production traffic.

• Lead from the front — proactively dive into complex production code, build targeted PoCs, and validate architectural decisions through hands-on experimentation.

• Demonstrate strong bias for action by converting ambiguous ideas into working implementations to de-risk high-impact initiatives early.

• Mentor engineers across levels, strengthening system design thinking and operational discipline.

• Establish and enforce engineering standards for observability, automation, testing, and resilience.

• Act as the technical escalation point for complex architectural and production challenges.

• Own and operate multiple instances of mission-critical Tier-0/Tier-1 services.

• Balance live-site management, feature velocity, and retirement of technical debt.

• Lead post-incident reviews and drive systemic reliability improvements.

Requirements

• Mastery of multiple programming languages and platforms;

• 12-15+ years of software development experience;

• Strong experience with: Public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), Kubernetes-based microservices

• Deep understanding and experience in working on distributed systems

• Deep understanding of Services Oriented Architecture

• Deep knowledge of object-oriented programming and other scripting languages: Java, Python, Go, and Node.JS

• Excellent RDBMS concepts and developed applications on top of SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL

• Strong understanding of: Monitoring, alerting, logging, observability, CI/CD pipelines and automated validation, High availability design patterns

• Experience working in Agile environments with strong testing discipline.

• A deeper understanding of software development best practices and demonstrating leadership skills;

• Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Security, IAM, cloud governance, or policy frameworks

• Exposure to security protocols (mTLS, PKI, OAuth, SAML).

• Experience building control-plane or platform-level services

• Familiarity with distributed data stores and streaming systems.

• NoSQL, HBase and/or document store such as Elastic Search

• Experience with open source projects such as Kafka, Spark, or Zookeeper

• Knowledge/Contribution to open source technology

• Developing RESTful services.

• Experience with distributed caching and load balancing systems

Benefits & perks

• Comprehensive benefits package including well-being reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more!

• World-class enablement and on-demand training with Trailhead.com

• Exposure to executive thought leaders and regular 1:1 coaching with leadership

• Volunteer opportunities and participation in our 1:1:1 model for giving back to the community

• For more details, visit https://www.salesforcebenefits.com/

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