Senior Systems Engineer (Cleared)

Salesforce•Herndon, VA

3d•$172,500 - $260,100•Onsite

About The Position

Salesforce is hiring a Senior Systems Engineer to join a team of software, systems, and security engineers supporting United States National Security customers. The role focuses on solving infrastructure deployment challenges with software, delivering high-velocity, high-quality infrastructure in specialized cloud environments, and shipping solutions. The position is on-site in Herndon, Virginia, five days per week, and is not remote. The engineer will take ownership of assigned areas, turn environmental constraints into practical service guardrails, solve infrastructure problems through code, and automate manual governance processes. They will work with partner and infrastructure teams across Salesforce to improve CI/CD governance and service efficiency while supporting feature velocity, patching, and maintenance. They will also assess technologies and contribute to the design of test and deployment services. The role requires an active U.S. TS/SCI clearance with polygraph. The candidate must be a U.S. citizen (U.S.-born or naturalized), hold no dual citizenship, and agree to complete a U.S. federal government Minimum Background Investigation for a Moderate Public Trust position.

Requirements

Hold an active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph.
Have 4 or more years of Linux engineering experience.
Have 3 or more years maintaining, building, or patching highly sensitive customer data and environments.
Have 3 or more years deploying with a CI orchestration service such as Jenkins or Spinnaker.
Have 3 or more years working within and building on AWS.
Have 2 or more years of experience with a scripting or programming language such as Shell, Perl, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, or Go.
Have 2 or more years deploying distributed applications with containers such as Docker and orchestration such as Kubernetes, EKS, or similar.
Be a U.S. citizen, U.S.-born or naturalized, and not hold dual citizenship.
Agree to complete a U.S. federal government Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) for a Moderate Public Trust position.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
Experience developing security and compliance into pipelines.
Experience with monitoring tools such as Nagios, Graphite, Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus, or Zabbix.

Responsibilities

Take ownership of assigned areas, work autonomously, and proactively drive progress.
Translate environmental constraints into practical guardrails that provide service owners with rapid, self-service feedback about service efficacy and security.
Solve infrastructure problems with code and build compute capacity.
Automate manual, people-heavy processes into governance solutions.
Advance CI/CD pipeline governance with partner teams and incorporate feedback to improve efficiency while maintaining service-owner feature velocity, patching, and maintenance.
Collaborate with infrastructure teams across Salesforce.
Evaluate new technologies to solve problems as needed.
Contribute to forward-looking design of test and deployment services.