Senior Systems Engineer (Cleared)

About Salesforce

The Experience

Location: This is an on-site role based in Herndon, Virginia 5 days per week. It is not a remote position.

You will join a team of highly motivated software, systems, and security engineers working on infrastructure at scale in support of United States National Security customers. You will be part of the team that solves infrastructure deployment challenges with software, delivers high-velocity and high-quality infrastructure in specialized cloud environments, and ships solutions. You will work alongside a highly innovative team of developers, open-source committers, and architects across Salesforce.

What You'll Actually Be Doing

• You take ownership of your areas with autonomy and proactively drive progress forward.
• You distill environmental constraints into practical guardrails that give service owners rapid, self-service feedback about the efficacy and security of their service.
• You solve infrastructure problems with code and build compute capacity in a fast-paced environment.
• You transform manual, people-heavy processes into automated governance solutions.
• You advance the governance of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines with partner teams, and you incorporate their feedback to improve efficiency while maintaining service-owner feature velocity, patching, and maintenance.
• You strengthen your influence and collaboration skills by partnering with infrastructure teams across Salesforce.
• You evaluate new technologies to solve problems as needed.
• You play a forward-thinking role in the design of test and deploy services.

You're Our Person If...

• You hold an active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph.
• You have 4+ years of Linux engineering experience.
• You have 3+ years maintaining, building, or patching highly sensitive customer data and environments.
• You have 3+ years deploying with a Continuous Integration (CI) orchestration service such as Jenkins or Spinnaker.
• You have 3+ years working within and building on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• You have 2+ years of experience with a scripting or programming language such as Shell, Perl, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, or Go.
• You have 2+ years deploying distributed applications with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), or similar).

Even Better If...

• You hold a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Computer Science or have equivalent work experience.
• You have experience developing security and compliance into pipelines.
• You have experience with monitoring tools such as Nagios, Graphite, Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus, or Zabbix.

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.This position requires a USA TS/SCI with Polygraph security access level.

Posting Statement

In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.

At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $172,500 - $260,100 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.