Principal Software Engineer

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Software Engineering

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About Salesforce

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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 helps us write our next chapter of both B2B and B2C growth.

Required Skills

* Excellent written and verbal communication
* Effective collaboration with multiple teams across time zones
* Championing a culture and work environment that promote diversity and inclusion
* Clear, concise technical communication particularly about problems and incidents
* Exceptional organization and time management skills
* Quickly synthesizing information from disparate sources of knowledge
* Fluency in at least one object oriented language with strong object oriented programming skills
* Applying solid engineering principles
* Proficiency with distributed version control
* Experience with Test Driven Development and unit, functional, integration, and performance testing
* Experience building microservices that not only scale but are also fault tolerant
* Experience building services that expose both gRPC and REST endpoints
* Experience working with distributed systems
* Familiarity with distributed events, stream processing, and serialization, e.g., Kafka, Avro
* Familiarity with workflow orchestration and durable execution, e.g., Temporal
* Familiarity with caching, e.g., Redis, ElastiCache
* Demonstrated history of service ownership, operational excellence, and successful incident response and remediation
* Experience monitoring services including telemetry, logging, metrics, aggregation systems and dashboards, and SLOs/SLAs and related statistical functions
* Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, e.g., Git, Jenkins, Spinnaker

Desired Skills

* Success working in regulated environments, e.g., government, health care, finance
* AWS expertise, e.g., EC2, EKS, S3, DynamoDB, etc.
* Authentication or Application Security related experience
* Familiarity with fundamental mesh and network technologies, e.g., Istio, DNS, Load Balancing, TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, curl, openssl
* Familiarity with container and orchestration services, e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
* Familiarity with cloud security best practices including policy, audit, encryption, identity, and secret management, e.g., TLS and PKI systems and x509 certificate management
* Exposure to configuring, deploying, securing, managing, and maintaining large, fault tolerant, cloud-hosted systems including auto scaling, automatic fail over and recovery, monitoring, security, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery

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For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $176,800 to $296,400.

For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $176,800 to $296,400.

Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.