Big Data Platform & Distributed Systems (Mid/Senior/Lead/Principal)
Salesforce - Washington - Bellevue
Posted May 21, 2026
Benefits
- Parental leave
- 26 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
- Non-birth-parent leave
- 12 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
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- Verification
- Source-linked checked May 7, 2026
- Salary
- $117K-$314K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
- 401(k) match
- Reported from DOL Form 5500 industry filing (not employer-specific)
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Market context
- U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
- $111,944 U.S. median for this role
- Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
- +13.7% - Much faster than average
92% above the BLS role benchmark for data and ml aggregate.
Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Data and ML aggregate by role bucket.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.
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About this role
Big Data Platform & Distributed Systems (Mid/Senior/Lead/Principal) Washington - Bellevue About the Teams: By applying to this role, you will be considered for two mission-critical teams at the heart of our data strategy. Both teams operate at extreme scale, leveraging Public Cloud (AWS/GCP) and Kubernetes to power the next generation of data-driven intelligence. Pillar 1: Data Engineering & Observability Build and own large-scale data pipelines and observability systems that power metrics, logging, and real-time insights across services. This role focuses on designing reliable telemetry pipelines, improving monitoring and alerting, and ensuring data quality and system visibility at scale. Ideal candidates have strong distributed systems fundamentals, backend development experience (Java or similar), and experience operating high-throughput data or monitoring platforms in cloud or hybrid environments. Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow by pushing the boundaries of AI development tools to deliver secure, optimized, and high-quality code. Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale. Pillar 2: Data Cloud. Big Data Compute platform team. Owns the compute infrastructure that powers large-scale Spark workloads. The team focuses on optimizing core Spark performance, solving distributed systems challenges, and building scalable AI infrastructure, including exploring efficient ways to run smaller language models. Contribute to building and maintaining the shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably. Critically evaluate
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