Sr. Software Engineering, Enterprise IAM

Salesforce•Bellevue, WA

11h

About The Position

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together, focusing on driving customer success through AI, innovation, and core values. The Salesforce Enterprise Security Engineering team is seeking an experienced software engineer to help design, build, and manage the self-service application administration platform (SSAAP). SSAAP is a highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed system designed to enable enterprise customers to self-service onboard their applications to IAM services, ensuring compliance with Enterprise Security standards. The team is responsible for building identity and access services that unify IT network, cloud platforms, and internal infrastructure, ensuring secure operations for every Salesforce engineer. This role requires a full-stack software development engineer with a track record of building modern services and applications following the Software Development Life Cycle and best security development practices. Understanding identity management technologies in authentication, authorization, and identity governance is crucial. The SSAAP team aims to deliver an exceptional user experience to Enterprise applications and asset owners and users through innovation, automation, and Agile excellence, reducing security and business risk by leveraging industry best practices and cutting-edge technologies. An ideal Senior Engineer will possess strong proficiency in Go, Java, and Python, Agentic/AI technologies, containerization, API design, cloud databases and storage, messaging systems, and both front-end and back-end development. They are expected to take ownership of initiatives, embody accountability, anticipate and solve problems, and engage in R&D as needed. The candidate should be adaptable to a fast-paced, team-driven environment, communicate effectively, continuously learn, and coach junior engineers. Comfort working independently, in small cross-functional groups, or in large teams across time zones, building strong collaborative relationships, is essential. This position offers the opportunity to excel in a performance-driven environment alongside subject matter experts and innovative leaders.

Requirements

6-8+ years of full-stack development experience with Go, Java, and Python, including strong proficiency in modern application development, API design, cloud services (databases, storage, messaging), containerization, and experience with building AI/agentic capabilities into user experience as well as backend where applicable.
3-5+ years of experience with modern web-based IAM technologies, such as authentication (SSO/Okta), authorization, identity governance and access management (Sailpoint), and privileged access management (PAM).
Experience with IAM, Cybersecurity, or compliance frameworks (NIST, ISO, SOC 2)
Strong understanding and working experience of AWS cloud infrastructure and services, including containers, Kubernetes, and Microservices architecture.
High proficiency with JSON, XML, and RESTful development practices, including designing APIs that may support AI-driven or agentic workflows.
Hands-on experience with secure coding, defensive programming, and modern CI/CD workflows using Git and Jenkins (including shell scripting for pipeline jobs).
Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills, with excellent attention to detail.
Proactive, positive attitude with demonstrated ability to work in agile/scrum environments and deliver reliable engineering solutions.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with frameworks and libraries such as React, Chakra UI, Redux Toolkit, and Axios is a plus, especially where improving user experience through AI-assisted interactions is beneficial.

Responsibilities

Own the full development lifecycle for IAM solutions, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, maintenance, and continuous improvement of user experience.
Collaborate across core product teams, IAM service teams, and customer zero teams (business analysts, UX designers, QA, product management, operations, governance) to refine requirements, ensure compliance, and deliver intuitive, high-quality solutions.
Develop and integrate features—including backend, frontend, Agentic components where applicable, and customer integrations—while providing technical guidance and troubleshooting across platforms and technologies.
Review, triage, and prioritize incoming requests, assessing and implementing enhancements based on user needs, release timelines, and business objectives.
Create technical documentation and enablement materials to support developers, customers, and internal teams.
Mentor and support peers and junior engineers through knowledge sharing, coaching, and positive influence, particularly around modern development and UX best practices.
Stay current with emerging technologies—including relevant AI/Agentic advancements—and drive innovation within the IAM domain and overall user experience.