Senior Systems Engineer (Cleared)

Description

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Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

About Salesforce

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.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of 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.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best , and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best . Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.