Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Identity and Access Management

Salesforce; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead the IAM engineering team within Security Infrastructure. The role focuses on context-aware, just-in-time access, governance, and deploying IAM services across cloud environments.

You will drive security policy enforcement and partner with SRE and engineering teams to ensure high availability and strong security posture. The ideal candidate has extensive leadership experience, hands-on cloud and IAM familiarity, and a track

Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience in software engineering.
• At least 3 years of managing software engineering teams.
• Hands-on or team-leadership experience with a major public cloud platform, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).
• Experience with Go or Java and building scalable, highly available platforms.
• Working knowledge of authentication standards (SAML, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0) and identity lifecycle management.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as NIST and ISO 27001.
• Experience leading programs with cross-functional stakeholders and 24/7 operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor an engineering team that owns services end to end, including 24/7 operations and RCAs.
• Set goals for provisioning/deprovisioning, PAM, RBAC, and access control improvements.
• Design, test, deploy, and operate the IAM stack with partners to deliver a single enterprise identity solution.
• Hire, develop, and evaluate direct reports, and drive platforms that assess security of code and third‑party packages.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Public cloud

Kubernetes

Terraform

Go

Java

IAM

Security compliance

Authentication standards

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud Platform

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Senior Manager, Software Engineering

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 are 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 are in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

The Senior Manager, Software Engineering role

The Senior Manager, Software Engineering role is part of our Security Infrastructure organization, within the Identity and Access Management (IAM) engineering team. You will lead the team that builds and runs services providing context-aware, just-in-time access and governance across Salesforce production infrastructure. You will shape our next generation IAM platform, enforcing security policies based on real-time context. You will partner with Site Reliability and engineering teams to build cloud-agnostic tooling that keeps Salesforce secure and highly available. Your near-term focus is how IAM services deploy across first-party and public cloud environments. Your longer-term focus is strengthening our security posture to improve our National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF) score. This role is based in San Francisco, CA or Bellevue, WA and is eligible for a hybrid work arrangement.

What You’ll Actually Be Doing

• Lead and mentor an engineering team that owns its services end to end, following Agile methodologies, including 24/7 operations and root cause investigations.
• Set goals and deliverables for improving provisioning and deprovisioning, privileged access management, role- and policy-based access control, and access appropriateness.
• Design, test, deploy, and operate the IAM stack with engineering and business partners to deliver one enterprise identity solution for Salesforce.
• Hire, develop, and evaluate direct reports, and drive platforms that continuously assess the security of code and third-party packages used by Salesforce engineers.

You’re Our Person If...

• You have 10+ years of industry experience, including at least 3 years managing software engineering teams.
• You have hands-on or team-leadership experience with a major public cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform), Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), plus experience building scalable, highly available platforms in Go or Java.
• You have working knowledge of authentication standards (SAML, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0), identity lifecycle management, and compliance frameworks such as NIST and ISO 27001.
• You have led complex programs with cross-functional stakeholders in a matrixed organization, and you have experience in a 24/7 environment with structured change management.

Even Better If...

• You have 5+ years managing identity and access management teams.
• You have experience with Privileged Access Management (PAM) and control plane and data plane access flows in public cloud environments.
• You have experience designing cloud-scale IAM services, including single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and authorization, and with federation protocols such as WS-Federation.
• You have experience driving strategy and using open-source technologies.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you will 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 will bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love.

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