Principal Architect, Salesforce
Platform Identity
$257.5-496.4k
Salary is partially dependent on location. Plus ESPP
World's leading CRM provider
Open for applications
World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$257.5-496.4k
Salary is partially dependent on location. Plus ESPP
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.
Role
Who you are
- Exceptional Technical Execution: A track record of delivering massive, sophisticated Identity and Security projects at global scale. You are recognized as the leader who "finishes the job" when architectural complexity requires a steady hand
- Identity Sovereignty: Expert-level mastery of the modern identity stack, including deep-tier Authentication and Authorization patterns. You don't just use standards; you understand their deep implementation details and how they behave under extreme load
- Operational Agility: The ability to pivot seamlessly. You can spend the morning resolving a critical mTLS handshake detail and the afternoon drafting a multi-year strategic evolution for Agentic Identity
- The "Bridge" Intuition: You have a natural ability to spot misalignment across technical domains and the professional "gravity" to pull organizations together toward a unified Identity standard
What the job involves
- We are seeking a distinguished Principal Architect to serve as the definitive technical authority for the Salesforce Identity Platform. This is a high-gravity leadership role for an architect who excels at the intersection of global trust systems and immediate operational delivery
- You are the primary engine of identity integrity, ensuring that contemporary authentication and authorization designs are hardened, near-term releases are seamless, and the multi-year roadmap for Agentic Identity is an operational reality. You will traverse the strategic and the tactical, harmonizing Identity efforts across the enterprise and establishing unified, elegant architectural patterns that secure billions of global transactions
- Advanced AuthN/AuthZ Frameworks: Translate sophisticated trust requirements into elegant, production-ready architectures. You will author the definitive technical frameworks for modern authentication flows, granular authorization, and secure session management for accelerated delivery cycles
- Identity Protocol Stewardship & Agentic Evolution: Serve as the final arbiter for high-stakes Identity initiatives. You will lead the implementation of modern industry standards while pioneering the frameworks for Agentic Identity, ensuring that autonomous agents can authenticate and operate with the same level of trust and security as human users
- Cryptographic & Resilience Governance: Lead the technical oversight of the platform’s most sensitive pathways, including Key Management, mTLS, and Token Exchange services.Through rigorous design governance, you will ensure every implementation is hardened for high-concurrency demands and maintains the highest standards of security integrity
- Identity-First Decisioning: Navigate the balance between immediate feature delivery and long-term platform health. You will provide high-context, rapid decision-making on complex Customer Identity & Access Management challenges while ensuring the foundational trust architecture remains pristine
- Identity Ecosystem Harmonization: Act as the primary technical bridge between senior leadership and cross-functional engineering domains. You ensure that identity lifecycles across diverse products (e.g., Core, Slack, Tableau, Agentforce) are cohesive, frictionless, and interoperable
- Consensus Engineering for Trust: Navigate complex organizational landscapes to align stakeholders on a singular Identity vision—balancing the need for developer agility with the uncompromising requirements of enterprise-grade security
- Institutionalizing Unified Identity Standards: Partner with senior leadership to replace ad-hoc integration models with repeatable, standardized Identity-as-a-Service patterns. You will establish the frameworks that allow disparate clouds to inherit core security and identity controls autonomously
- Identity-Product Synthesis: Work closely with stakeholders to refine nebulous requirements into achievable technical milestones, ensuring every identity feature is sustainable and aligned with global engineering capacity
- Strategic Identity Roadmap: Lead Long-Range Planning (LRP) initiatives and author the "North Star" papers that define the evolution of Zero-Trust, Verifiable Credentials, and Agentic Identity frameworks
- Global Standard Stewardship: Influence the trajectory of global identity standards and specifications, ensuring tactical decisions made today align with the future of the global identity landscape
- Identity Consistency & Audit: Establish and enforce architectural principles across the Identity domain, evaluating emerging designs to ensure a consistent security posture and user experience across all Salesforce clouds
- Horizon Scanning: Proactively evaluate emerging shifts—such as decentralized identity or AI-driven fraud detection—to determine their impact on the Salesforce ecosystem
- Mentorship & Intellectual Leadership: Serve as a force multiplier for the organization by providing high-impact coaching to senior architects, raising the collective bar for Identity engineering across Salesforce
- Evangelizing Modern Engineering Craft: Act as a champion for the adoption of evolving AI-augmented coding tools. You will lead the effort to integrate these technologies into our engineering culture, demonstrating how AI can enhance architectural consistency and accelerate the delivery of secure, high-quality identity services
Our take
Salesforce is a global cloud computing company, best known for its on-demand, comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The company was launched to mitigate the doubts that business owners felt regarding third party companies holding their data.
By providing essential, customer-oriented CRM software, Salesforce places itself at the heart of digitised businesses. Furthermore, by building out its AI capabilities, the company removes the complexity of AI, enabling any business to deliver smarter, personalised and more predictive customer experiences.
Due to the continued innovation offered by the company, over 150,000 companies, both big and small, are growing their business with Salesforce today. Despite a tumultuous 2023 filled with activist investors, a boardroom shake-up and the unprecedented step-down of Co-CEO Bret Taylor, Salesforce continues to close several acquisition deals and managed to drive up its stock value by 96% from the end of 2022 to 2023.
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Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2001
$46.9m
SERIES D
Nov 1999
$13.2m
SERIES C
Total funding: $64.5m
Company benefits
- With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Marc Benioff
(Chair & CEO)Previously Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation for 13 years.
Parker Harris
(CTO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer for over six years. Harris also co-founded Left Coast Software.
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