Director, DNS Engineering & DDI - Cloud-Native Leader

Salesforce, Inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead DNS Engineering, owning DNS, DDI, and automation across data centers and Hyperforce. You will guide a multi-disciplinary team, set SLOs, and drive cloud-native migrations while ensuring security and high availability.

You will partner with platform, networking, and product teams to deliver a scalable, resilient DNS platform and mentor future leaders in a complex, globally distributed environment.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years leading teams.
• Deep DNS and core internet protocols knowledge at scale.
• Experience owning Tier-0/Tier-1 services in a 24x7x365 environment.
• Proven distributed systems design and reliability judgment.
• Public cloud experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) and IaC tooling.
• Ability to drive AI-assisted automation and developer productivity.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term strategy and roadmap for DNS/DDI and lead delivery.
• Grow and mentor engineering teams, with diverse, high-performing talent.
• Ensure availability, latency, and change-safety targets (SLOs).
• Modernize platform to cloud-native, multi-provider DNS across Hyperforce.
• Automate with AI-assisted development and self-service APIs.
• Collaborate with platform, networking, security, and product teams.
• Communicate progress and tradeoffs to senior leadership.

Skills

DNS engineering

Cloud-native

Distributed systems

Python

Go

Kubernetes

Terraform

Puppet

Spinnaker

CI/CD

AWS

GCP

DNSSEC

DDoS protection

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

MS in Computer Science (nice-to-have)

Tools

Infoblox

AWS Route 53

Kubernetes

Terraform

Puppet

Spinnaker

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead DNS Engineering, owning DNS, DDI, and automation across data centers and Hyperforce. You will guide a multi-disciplinary team, set SLOs, and drive cloud-native migrations while ensuring security and high availability.

You will partner with platform, networking, and product teams to deliver a scalable, resilient DNS platform and mentor future leaders in a complex, globally distributed environment.