Senior Backbone Network Architect – Data Center & Cloud

Salesforce, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Principal Network Engineer to define and evolve reference architectures for first-party data center networks, spanning routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers with touchpoints into compute.

You will own backbone and internet connectivity, plus interconnect with public cloud environments (AWS and GCP). You will lead a hardware lifecycle, security posture, and mentor engineers while collaborating with Security, Network Operations, and capacity planning teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of network engineering or architecture in data center scale.
• Proven leadership of multi-team architecture efforts.
• Strong expertise in large-scale data center/WAN design (BGP, EVPN/VXLAN).
• Hands-on with firewalls and TLS termination at the edge.

Responsibilities

• Define reference architectures for first-party data center networks.
• Design network and delivery architectures for large-scale sites across Salesforce.
• Own backbone connectivity between data centers and public cloud environments (AWS and GCP).
• Lead infrastructure lifecycle and hardware refresh efforts.
• Build network automation in Ansible and Python; maintain tooling in Git repos.
• Mentor engineers and influence cross-org technical strategy through reviews.
• Drive edge protocol tuning and security posture for scale.

Skills

Ansible

Python

Git workflows

BGP EVPN VXLAN

Data center design

Security architecture

TLS/SSL

Edge firewall design

Tools

Cisco

F5 BIG-IP

Juniper

Ciena

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Principal Network Engineer to define and evolve reference architectures for first-party data center networks, spanning routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers with touchpoints into compute.

You will own backbone and internet connectivity, plus interconnect with public cloud environments (AWS and GCP). You will lead a hardware lifecycle, security posture, and mentor engineers while collaborating with Security, Network Operations, and capacity planning teams.