Systems Engineering Principal

To get the best candidate experience please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts Job Category Software Engineering Job Details About Salesforce 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 Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era You re in the right place Agentforce is the future of AI and you are the future of Salesforce The Security team is building and enhancing a cloud platform for various network security controls and management Our mission is to develop highly-available and performant distributed systems to provide security at the network level in public clouds including micro segmentation L3 4 7 DDoS prevention Our scope is a wide range of compute substrates VMs and containers This is a great opportunity for ambitious engineers that want comprehensive technical growth on three coordinates Development architecting and coding solutions in any of distributed systems highly available microservices systems programming hypervisors and kernel agents or user interfaces Security experimenting with access control and network security policies packet filtering techniques managing and monitoring communication among services or DDoS prevention at the application layer Networking exploring and implementing software solutions at various OSI layers and devices from physical hosts to hypervisors and containers If you excel in any of these areas and are passionate to learn about the others this is an awesome role to make a significant technical and business impact while operating on one of the largest cloud platforms in the world Responsibilities Architect and implement distributed systems to deliver security controls at the network level in Salesforce s public and private clouds Such solutions cover but are not limited to network policy management ACLs enforcement DDoS and network protection for containers Develop software solutions and microservices to support our network security platforms in public clouds Research and implement new networking security solutions and platforms for intra- and cross-datacenter network flows Advance and operate these security scanning platforms in a full DevOps model Operate in an Agile development environment including participating in daily scrums Support the team s engineering excellence by performing code reviews and mentoring junior team members Requirements Industry experience 15 years including 10 years experience in SaaS PaaS or IaaS software development 5 years experience in a high-availability 24 7 environment cloud platforms are a plus Education ME M Tech in Computer Science Engineering or BE B Tech in same disciplines with equivalent years of experience Network Security Hands-on expertise in building or managing software platforms for network security including segmentation ACLs DPI DDoS protection Examples include Software iptables ipsec VPN IDS WAF OWASP protections etc Networking Industry-level expertise in any of the following networking aspects VM and containers network stacks OpenStack s Neutron Cilium Romana Network control planes and agents Calico Flannel Contiv Contrail OVN OSI model and debugging network traffic Networking protocols TCP UDP BGP DNS DHCP Datacenter network architecture at software platform and hardware devices NAT VXLAN overlay underlay Programming Proficiency in object-oriented and multi-threaded programming in at least one of the following languages Golang Java C Python Platform development Proven track of designing and coding large-scale PaaS or IaaS systems especially for public cloud providers e g AWS Azure GCP Software design Demonstrated expertise in applying systems patterns e g Client-server N-tier Master Slave MVC and API constructions e g Swagger OpenAPI Operating systems Development and software management on Linux systems e g CentOS RHEL Security Strong knowledge in security fundamentals authentication authorization frameworks e g SSO SAML Oauth secure transport e g SSL TLS identity management e g certificates PKI DevOps mindset and strong ownership over owned code test monitor deploy maintain Communication Excellent oral and written communication skills Team Ability to value team success beyond personal contributions Desired Skills Experience Distributed systems Expertise in designing implementing and operating distributed systems architectures and concepts including any of the following High-performance high-availability 99 999 and self-recoverable systems Control orchestration and automation platforms RPC frameworks e g Protobuf gRPC Thrift Bond Consensus and consistency frameworks e g Paxos Raft strong eventual consistency Data-processing systems e g Lambda architecture Kafka RabbitMQ ELK Storage solutions e g Cassandra MongoDB Hadoop Redis Zookeeper VMs Containers Hands-on experience with VMs and container technologies e g OpenStack Docker Kubernetes Full-software ownership from idea to running in production design code writing unit tests performing integration tests deploying to production supporting the system in the production environments 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 Accommodations If you 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