Senior DevOps Engineer

Salesforce.com • Herndon, VA

67d • $157,600 - $216,700 • Remote

About The Position

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. We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a dynamic team of software, systems, and security engineers. This role involves working on enterprise-scale infrastructure, focusing on resolving infrastructure deployment challenges through software solutions. The ideal candidate will deliver high-velocity and high-quality infrastructure in public cloud environments, bringing a passion for innovative, automation-first solutions that leverage cutting-edge AI and traditional technical stacks.

Requirements

• 3+ years working experience with programming and scripting languages such as (Python, Golang and Shell) with a strong preference for Python.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience developing and maintaining DevOps processes - CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure builds using Infrastructure as Code, Production operations and support and Automated testing.
• 3+ years operating production Kubernetes deployments, with a deep understanding of platform concepts and core components.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience building containerized workloads targeting Kubernetes environments.
• 2+ years developing infrastructure and application security for highly sensitive customer data & environments (IAM, PKI, Vulnerability management).
• 2+ years experience with Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management technologies such as Terraform, Jinja2, Go Templates, Ansible etc.
• 2+ years experience deploying with a CI/CD orchestration services (Jenkins, Spinnaker).
• 1+ Experience running code reviews and mentoring junior developers.
• Experience working within and building cloud native services on AWS with good understanding of tcp/ip networking protocols.
• Experience leading and presenting engineering topics to non-engineering and executive stakeholders.
• A related technical degree is required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with cloud based Kubernetes platforms such as EKS, GKE or similar.
• Experience in any of the logging and monitoring stacks such as Splunk, Grafana, elastic search, Cloudwatch, Prometheus etc.
• Experience using telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellence and managing enterprise grade services and applications in production.
• Leading the design and development of prototypes, maintaining high standards of quality with code base and maintaining detailed documentation.
• Experience with API design and development and familiarity with microservices architecture and related design patterns.
• Experience with automated test harnesses and frameworks, and authoring test suites, for both unit and functional/integration tests, that can be invoked within CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with supporting developing security & compliance into pipelines (OPA, Chekov, Twistlock, Prisma, Casbin).

Responsibilities

• Debug and resolve infrastructure and application failures in Kubernetes and cloud-native environments.
• Collaborate with internal teams for efficient iterations of automated CI/CD pipelines with the goal of maintaining service owner feature velocity, troubleshooting and reproducing issues reported in Production environments.
• Lead the design, development, and distribution of operator tooling, leveraging Salesforce's robust CI/CD infrastructure.
• Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and architects to transform manual processes into automated governance solutions.
• Interact with a highly innovative and creative team of developers, open-source committers and architects across Salesforce.
• Research and find the right tools for the job, and if they don't exist create them.

Benefits

• time off programs
• medical, dental, vision
• mental health support
• paid parental leave
• life and disability insurance
• 401(k)
• employee stock purchasing program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees