Infrastructure/Service Mesh Software Engineer
InformaticaBase Salary
$197k - $314k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive technical strategy for infrastructure platforms spanning compute, networking, storage, and observability.
- Own architecture decisions, multi-year roadmaps, and scalability and reliability outcomes for infrastructure systems.
- Design and implement the next-generation Ingress Gateway data plane and control plane.
- Build and operate distributed load balancing, gateway, proxy, and service mesh systems across thousands of compute nodes and multiple data centers.
- Establish reliability, performance, and operational-excellence patterns; mentor senior engineers and lead design reviews.
- Balance live-site management, feature delivery, and technical-debt retirement while participating in the on-call rotation.
- Use telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellence and keep services highly available.
- Enhance open-source Envoy and Istio capabilities and contribute improvements to the broader community.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience with a strong infrastructure background.
- Experience defining infrastructure strategy, owning architecture decisions, setting multi-year roadmaps, and scaling reliable systems.
- Proficiency with Golang, Java, and/or C++ in Linux/UNIX data center environments.
- Experience operating large-scale cluster management systems such as Kubernetes for mission-critical services.
- Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, TLS termination, HTTP proxies, and network load balancing.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms.
- Working knowledge of Spinnaker, Terraform, configuration management, and Infrastructure as Code principles.
- Experience with Agile development methodology such as Scrum and Test-Driven Development.
- Experience designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems.
- Experience using telemetry and metrics to improve operational excellence.
- Experience with Istio and Envoy is a major plus.
- Ability to drive thin slices of end-to-end functionality, work across complex team environments, and deliver under dependency constraints.
Benefits
- Benefits include time-off programs, medical, dental, and vision coverage, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- Salesforce provides reasonable accommodations during the application and recruiting process.
- The role is subject to Salesforce’s equal opportunity and nondiscrimination policies.
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About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com