Software Engineering Architect - Mulesoft

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About the role

As an Architect for MuleSoft, you will provide architectural leadership for the platforms and infrastructure that power MuleSoft's highly available, globally distributed services. You'll define the technical vision for complex infrastructure initiatives, working across engineering, product, security, and operations teams to translate business and platform requirements into scalable, resilient, secure, and operationally efficient solutions. This is a highly technical leadership role requiring strong architectural judgment, broad infrastructure expertise, and the ability to influence engineering direction across multiple teams and organizations.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the architecture for MuleSoft infrastructure and platform services, balancing scalability, availability, security, performance, and cost, while leading end-to-end design of complex distributed systems spanning cloud platforms, Kubernetes, networking, and data stores.
• Serve as a senior technical authority, leading architecture reviews and partnering with engineering leaders, product managers, security, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to evaluate tradeoffs and develop solutions across organizational boundaries.
• Develop strategies for modernizing legacy infrastructure and design for high availability, fault isolation, disaster recovery, and reduced blast radius across globally distributed systems.
• Identify architectural bottlenecks and systemic risks, and produce clear architecture documentation, reference architectures, and technical standards that guide teams toward consistent, scalable decisions.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience designing and building large-scale software, cloud, or infrastructure systems, with significant experience providing architectural or senior technical leadership across multiple engineering teams.
• Deep expertise with public cloud platforms (particularly Amazon Web Services (AWS)), Kubernetes and containerized infrastructure (including Docker and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)), and strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and API architectures.
• Strong knowledge of networking concepts — Domain Name System (DNS), load balancing, routing, proxies, and network security — along with experience in high-availability, multi-region, and disaster-recovery architecture design.
• Ability to communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to both technical and executive audiences, and a strong track record of building consensus and mentoring senior technical talent.

Skills

• Experience architecting large-scale SaaS or enterprise cloud platforms, including globally distributed, multi-tenant systems.
• Experience designing infrastructure supporting mission-critical services with stringent availability and reliability requirements.
• Familiarity with modern Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) and software delivery platforms, including Git-based workflows and tools such as Jenkins.
• Relevant cloud, Kubernetes, security, or architecture certifications.

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. More details about company benefits can be found here.

Pay

The typical base salary range for this position is $218,400 - $365,200 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $263,200 - $401,400 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.

Schedule

Location: San Francisco, CA or Bellevue, WA