Software Engineer, Salesforce
Leadership, Management, and Technical Strategy
$207.8-285.8k
World's leading CRM provider
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World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$207.8-285.8k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.
Role
Who you are
- Massive-Scale Mindset: You are excited by the challenge of building infrastructure for an application that serves millions of users across multiple public clouds
- Systems Architect: You view networking as a distributed systems problem, prioritizing self-healing, automation, and API-first design
- L3-L7 Expert: Deep proficiency in the OSI stack, specifically L3 (BGP, IPv4/IPv6 routing), L4 (TCP/UDP performance), and L7 (TLS, DNS, DDOS prevention/mitigation)
- Operational Leader: Experience owning mission-critical services where downtime is not an option, with a strong focus on telemetry and data-driven reliability
- 6+ years of proven experience designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers, with a focus on Networking technologies
- Expert-level coding in Golang, Python, or C/C++ in a Linux/UNIX environment
- Distributed Systems: Proven experience building and operating resilient, high-availability services at scale
- Networking Expertise: Advanced knowledge of IP networking and cloud-native networking primitives
- Production Ownership: Experience owning mission critical services, including designing for Disaster Recovery and multi-region failover
- Agile Leadership: Experience in Agile/Scrum environments with a commitment to Test-Driven Development and high code quality
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- A related Technical degree required
What the job involves
- As Lead Engineer on the Salesforce Network Software team, you will design and implement the distributed and highly available Software-defined networking infrastructure for one of the largest enterprise applications ever built on the public cloud
- Our team is responsible for the mission-critical fabric that enables Salesforce to operate at an unprecedented global scale
- You will lead the development of high-performance networking services, with a focus on building a truly multi-substrate, dual-stack (IPv4/IPv6) foundation. A primary building block of this infrastructure is our networking software, enabling self-service, API-driven connectivity across AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Your work will replace legacy bottlenecks - like manual routing, IP allocation and static configuration - with a software-defined layer that enables faster deployments and architectural efficiency
- Develop Global Infrastructure: Design and operate mission critical networking services that power Salesforce’s massive public cloud footprint, ensuring they are resilient to regional failures and support seamless Disaster Recovery (DR)
- Build Scalable Networking Blocks: Lead the development of critical infrastructure services, including next-gen Dual-Stack IPAM, ensuring automated, self-service IP provisioning across all cloud substrates
- Optimize Cloud Connectivity: Transform how our services connect by reducing reliance on complex intermediaries, moving toward a streamlined, software-defined network fabric
- Modernize with IPv6: Drive the adoption of IPv6-native and dual-stack architectures, ensuring the IPAM and routing layers are ready for the next decade of cloud growth
- Innovate with Open Source: Leverage and contribute to cutting-edge projects to build observability and control into the heart of the network
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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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