Lead PKI & Crypto Trust Architect

Salesforce; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce seeks a Lead Software Engineer to architect and scale the unified Registration Authority, the front door for cryptographic trust across a global multi-cloud platform. You will guide highly concurrent Go code, oversee security-critical workflows, and mentor senior engineers in a frontier AI-enabled environment.

You will lead design across distributed systems, drive architectural consensus, and push for robust testing, observability, and scalable AI-assisted development practices within

Qualifications

• 9+ years of professional software development experience with distributed systems.
• Deep production-grade expertise in Go (Golang), Java, or Rust and advanced concurrency patterns.
• Experience deploying and operating highly available services in AWS and GCP.
• RESTful and gRPC design with robust distributed state machines.
• Strong observability, telemetry, and CI/CD capabilities.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development and prompt engineering.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain the unified Registration Authority (RA) for global multi-cloud platforms.
• Design highly concurrent, multi-substrate build paths in Go for diverse public-cloud environments.
• Develop and scale synchronous and asynchronous certificate issuance paths using distributed state machines.
• Implement hierarchical policy engines and authorization controls for workload identity validation.
• Integrate with multiple Certificate Authorities for certificate lifecycle management.
• Lead engineering excellence through reviews, testing, and scalable system design.
• Mentor engineers and drive AI-augmented software development practices.

Skills

Go (Golang)

Java

Rust

Kubernetes

GitHub Copilot

Codex

Cursor

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

AI coding assistants

Job description

Salesforce seeks a Lead Software Engineer to architect and scale the unified Registration Authority, the front door for cryptographic trust across a global multi-cloud platform. You will guide highly concurrent Go code, oversee security-critical workflows, and mentor senior engineers in a frontier AI-enabled environment.

You will lead design across distributed systems, drive architectural consensus, and push for robust testing, observability, and scalable AI-assisted development practices within