Software Engineering PMTS, Enterprise PKI

Principal Software Engineer

The Enterprise Security Technology team builds and operates highly scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems that deliver cloud-scale security software across multiple public cloud platforms and Salesforce's internal infrastructure. Our key investments are in Identity and Access Management and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), where we design consistent and scalable services for Salesforce Enterprise, integrating our IT network, public cloud infrastructure, and our own data centers.

As a Principal Software Engineer on this team, you help shape the architecture of our next

Gen PKI platform, using AI as a core part of your engineering workflow to move faster and deliver secure, production-grade infrastructure at scale.

You'll Actually Be Doing

• Architect and lead the implementation and evolution of Enterprise Java Beans Certificate Authority (EJBCA)-based PKI infrastructure, including Certificate Authority (CA) hierarchies, Enterprise Registration Authority (RA) capabilities, Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) responders, and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) distribution
• Own the technical design and delivery of the next
  
  Gen PKI platform, ensuring scalability, resiliency, security, and compliance across a hybrid cloud environment
• Lead the adoption and support of modern certificate enrollment and management protocols not supported by legacy CA platforms, including Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME), Enrollment over Secure Transport (EST), Certificate Management Protocol (CMP), and REST-based certificate Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), enabling automated, scalable certificate management for cloud-native, Internet of Things (IoT), and Dev Ops workloads
• Design and build automation frameworks and APIs for certificate provisioning, renewal, revocation, monitoring, and audit logging
• Drive certificate lifecycle management for internal clients, applications, devices, and workloads at enterprise scale
• Lead the expansion of PKI into new use cases including IoT device identity, workload identity, mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS), and Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) readiness
• Integrate certificate-based authentication and automated certificate management across enterprise platforms, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and cloud infrastructure
• Collaborate with security architects, infrastructure, and application teams to align PKI solutions with organizational policies, regulatory requirements, and compliance standards
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers on cryptographic protocols, secure coding practices, and identity primitives
• Drive incident response and root cause analysis for PKI-related outages or certificate trust failures
• Develop and maintain architecture documentation, operational runbooks, and PKI standards
• Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow, pushing the boundaries of AI development tools to deliver secure, optimized, and high-quality code
• Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale
• Contribute to building and maintaining shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably, and critically evaluate code (human- or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance

You're Our Person If...

• You have 10+ years of experience in enterprise-scale PKI design and operations, with hands-on expertise in EJBCA or comparable CA/RA platforms (e.g., Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS), Dogtag, Vault PKI)
• You have a deep understanding of X.509 certificates, asymmetric cryptography, certificate templates, key usages, trust chains, CRLs, and OCSP
• You have proven experience designing and building certificate lifecycle automation and management workflows
• You have hands-on experience with modern enrollment protocols including ACME, EST, CMP, and REST certificate APIs, along with experience migrating workloads…