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Salesforce, Inc.

Principal Software Engineer

Salesforce, Inc., San Francisco, California, United States, 94199


Principal Software Engineer

Job Category: Software EngineeringAbout SalesforceWe’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI + Data + CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.The Identity org at Salesforce is building the next generation of Identity and Authentication services with the goal of tightly integrating all Salesforce products. We run highly available, tier zero, global services that process billions of requests per month for hundreds of millions of users. We’re a high impact and high visibility team. Every user of every Salesforce product uses our services.The Identity org is expanding to support our tremendous growth. You’ll collaborate with over a dozen teams to solve hard engineering problems around security, availability, scalability, streaming, replication, and user experience. You’ll work on new and existing protocols that we’ve pioneered and adopted in partnership with other industry leaders. You’ll champion our mission to deliver highly available, high throughput, and highly performant services. You’ll contribute to our on call rotation by responding to and resolving incidents in real time for our customers. You’ll advance our tradition of operational excellence by developing robust automation, monitoring, alerting, and remediation solutions. You’ll help us write our next chapter of both B2B and B2C growth.Required SkillsExcellent written and verbal communicationEffective collaboration with multiple teams across time zonesChampioning a culture and work environment that promote diversity and inclusionClear, concise technical communication particularly about problems and incidentsExceptional organization and time management skillsQuickly synthesizing information from disparate sources of knowledgeFluency in at least one object-oriented language with strong object-oriented programming skillsApplying solid engineering principlesProficiency with distributed version controlExperience with Test Driven Development and unit, functional, integration, and performance testingExperience building microservices that not only scale but are also fault tolerantExperience building services that expose both gRPC and REST endpointsExperience working with distributed systemsFamiliarity with distributed events, stream processing, and serialization, e.g., Kafka, AvroFamiliarity with workflow orchestration and durable execution, e.g., TemporalFamiliarity with caching, e.g., Redis, ElastiCacheDemonstrated history of service ownership, operational excellence, and successful incident response and remediationExperience monitoring services including telemetry, logging, metrics, aggregation systems and dashboards, and SLOs/SLAs and related statistical functionsFamiliarity with CI/CD pipelines, e.g., Git, Jenkins, SpinnakerDesired SkillsSuccess working in regulated environments, e.g., government, health care, financeAWS expertise, e.g., EC2, EKS, S3, DynamoDB, etc.Authentication or Application Security related experienceFamiliarity with fundamental mesh and network technologies, e.g., Istio, DNS, Load Balancing, TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, curl, opensslFamiliarity with container and orchestration services, e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, HelmFamiliarity with cloud security best practices including policy, audit, encryption, identity, and secret management, e.g., TLS and PKI systems and x509 certificate managementExposure to configuring, deploying, securing, managing, and maintaining large, fault tolerant, cloud-hosted systems including auto scaling, automatic failover and recovery, monitoring, security, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and disaster recoveryAccommodationsIf you require assistance due to a disability applying for open positions please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form.Posting StatementAt Salesforce we believe that the business of business is to improve the state of our world. Each of us has a responsibility to drive Equality in our communities and workplaces. We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives such as equal pay, employee resource groups, inclusive benefits, and more.Salesforce

is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.Salesforce welcomes all.

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