Salesforce · 4 hours ago
Systems Engineering Lead
Herndon, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
4+ years expSalesforce is the #1 AI CRM, driving customer success through innovation and technology. They are seeking an experienced Systems Engineering Lead to work with a motivated team on infrastructure solutions for U.S. National Security customers, focusing on automation and governance in cloud environments.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingCRMSaaSSales EnablementSoftware
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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)
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
Preferred
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
Benefits
Time off programs
Medical
Dental
Vision
Mental health support
Paid parental leave
Life and disability insurance
401(k)
Employee stock purchasing program
Company
Salesforce
Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$65.38MKey Investors
Starboard ValueEmergence CapitalHalsey Minor
2022-10-18Post Ipo Equity
2004-06-23IPO
2003-01-01Series Unknown· $1M
Leadership Team
Arundhati Bhattacharya
Chairman & Ceo Salesforce India
Kendall Collins
CEO, GovCloud - Salesforce
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