Senior Manager, DNS Engineering & Cloud-Native Platforms

Salesforce, Inc.; Washington; On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead DNS Engineering, responsible for authoritative and recursive DNS, DDI platforms, and DNS security across Salesforce data centers and Hyperforce. The role requires 12+ years in software engineering, 5+ years of leadership, and deep DNS expertise.

You'll set multi‑year strategy, own availability and live-site health, and guide cloud-native migrations with automation and AI-assisted operations across first‑party and public-cloud

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering
• 5+ years leading teams
• deep experience with DNS and large-scale distributed systems

Responsibilities

• Set strategy and own delivery for Salesforce DNS and DDI
• Lead and grow the organization, hiring and developing engineers
• Own availability, SLOs, incident and problem management
• Modernize the platform toward cloud-native, multi-provider DNS
• Automate via AI and self-service, grow DNS/IPAM APIs
• Strengthen security posture (DNSSEC, DDoS resilience)
• Balance the portfolio with feature delivery and reliability

Skills

DNS engineering

Distributed systems

Leadership

Cloud-native

DNS security

Tools

BIND

dnsdist

AWS Route 53

GCP Cloud DNS

Kubernetes

Puppet

Terraform

Spinnaker

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead DNS Engineering, responsible for authoritative and recursive DNS, DDI platforms, and DNS security across Salesforce data centers and Hyperforce. The role requires 12+ years in software engineering, 5+ years of leadership, and deep DNS expertise.

You'll set multi‑year strategy, own availability and live-site health, and guide cloud-native migrations with automation and AI-assisted operations across first‑party and public-cloud