Software Engineering PMTS

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Software Engineering

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Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword - it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

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About Salesforce:

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data+CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too - driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good– you’ve come to the right place.

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword - it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

About Agentforce:

At Salesforce, Agentforce embodies our commitment to leveraging AI, data analytics, and CRM to revolutionize business operations. Agentforce integrates advanced AI capabilities and real-time data insights to deliver Agentic AI solutions. Designed to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and provide actionable intelligence, Agentforce ensures that organizations can augment their workforces with digital labor. Upholding the highest standards of trust and security, Agentforce empowers businesses to build stronger customer relationships, drive growth, and achieve their goals with unparalleled efficiency and reliability.

Secrets team, within the Data Security org, is looking for a Principal Software Engineer. As a technical leader on the team, you will play a crucial role in designing and developing robust secrets management solutions. You will lead multiple initiatives in parallel, mentor junior engineers via code reviews and technical guidance. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance our security posture and streamline operations. You will work on building solutions for challenging problem statements to improve our service availability and performance. This is a highly hands-on leadership role where you will actively write code, tackle complex technical challenges, and lead by example.

Primary Responsibilities:

Architect the Future of Secrets Management: Define and lead the technical roadmap for our core Secrets product, spearheading the architecture for highly secure, multi-cloud Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments tailored strictly for secret storage, access, and distribution.

Champion Mission-Critical Reliability: Own the end-to-end lifecycle of highly sensitive, "Tier 0" systems. Architect profoundly scalable, self-healing services that guarantee zero-downtime access to secrets, resolving complex distributed system issues to ensure unwavering resilience.

Advance Cryptography & Zero-Trust Identity: Serve as a domain expert in PKI, X.509, and cryptography. Continuously evaluate and integrate emerging technologies to pioneer new approaches for dynamic secret generation, automated key rotation, device identity, and zero-trust authentication.

Innovate Secure Secret Distribution: Lead research and development efforts to prototype and deploy cutting-edge features for secure credential delivery. Enable highly secure real-time and non-real-time peer-to-peer communication across heterogeneous networks, ensuring strict access controls and minimizing blast radius.

Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering required; Masters degree preferred.

12+ years of hands-on experience working in a software development role in a product based software technology company.

8+ years experience in development in public cloud environments (AWS preferred; GCP a plus)

Hands-On Engineering & Data: Deep, hands-on programming expertise in Golang, Java, C#, Python, Rust, or C/C++ with a proven track record of designing highly available, scalable data tiers using relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Postgres, DynamoDB, Cassandra).

Cloud-Native Architecture & Infrastructure: Advanced command of cloud computing paradigms, encompassing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and core distributed networking (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing).

Security & Open Source: Applied knowledge of cloud security design, Secrets Management (Hashicorp Vault experience is a plus), PKI/X.509, and OWASP principles.

Architecture & Leadership: Proven ability to translate strategic vision into tactical architecture, paired with strong cross-functional leadership and excellent problem solving skills.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best , and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best . Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future - but to redefine what’s possible - for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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