Systems Engineering Lead

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Software Engineering

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.

This is a customer-facing role and will require you to be on-site in Northern Virginia. This is NOT a remote position.

We are looking for an experienced engineer to join a team of highly motivated software, systems & security engineers working on Infrastructure at scale in support of US National Security customers. Be part of the team that solves infrastructure deployment issues with software, delivers high velocity and high quality infrastructure in specialized cloud environments, and delivers solutions.

PLEASE NOTE:

Qualification for this job is contingent upon acceptable results from a background investigation as well as your having and maintaining the specific level of U.S. government background investigation and clearance required for this role.

• You'll demonstrate a sense of autonomy and vitality for ownership of your areas and proactively take accountability for progress forward.
• You will distill environmental constraints into the design of practical guardrails that enable service owners to receive rapid, self service feedback about the efficacy and security of their service.
• You are strong in solving Infrastructure related problems with code and you ve experienced building compute capacity in a fast paced environment.
• You will transform human heavy processes into automated governance solutions.
• Evangelize the maturing governance of CI/CD pipelines with partner teams and digest feedback for further efficiency iteration with the goal of maintaining service owner feature velocity, patching, and maintenance.
• You will get a chance to improve your influence and collaboration skills working with various other Infrastructure teams across Salesforce.
• You will be interacting with a highly innovative and creative team of developers, open-source committers and architects.
• You will evaluate new technologies to solve problems as needed and play a forward thinking role in test and deploy service design.

• Active TS/SCI clearance w/polygraph
• 4+ years Linux engineering experience
• 3+ years maintaining, building, or patching for Highly Sensitive Customer Data & Environments (IAM,
• 3+ years experience deploying with a CI orchestration service (Jenkins, Spinnaker)
• 3+ years experience working within and building on AWS
• 2+ years working experience scripting/programming language (Shell, Perl, Py, Ruby, JS, Go)
• 2+ years deploying distributed apps with containers (Docker) & orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, etc)

• BS Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Experience developing security & compliance into pipelines
• Experience in any of the monitoring tools like Nagios, Graphite, Datadog, Cloudwatch, Prometheus, Zabbix etc.

This candidate must be a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized) who does not hold dual citizenship and agrees to complete a U.S. federal government Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) for a Moderate Public Trust position.

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