Senior Systems Engineer (Cleared)

Salesforce, Inc.; Virginia; On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a highly skilled Linux/Cloud Engineer for an on-site role in Herndon, VA. You will join a team supporting U.S. National Security customers, building scalable infrastructure and automated governance in cloud environments.

You will own areas with autonomy, drive progress, and collaborate across Salesforce teams to improve CI/CD pipelines and security posture. This role requires TS/SCI clearance with polygraph and U.S. citizenship.

Qualifications

• 4+ years Linux engineering experience.
• 3+ years maintaining, building, or patching highly sensitive customer data and environments.
• 3+ years deploying with a CI orchestration service such as Jenkins or Spinnaker.
• 3+ years working with AWS.
• 2+ years scripting in Shell, Perl, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, or Go.
• 2+ years deploying distributed applications with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS).
• U.S. citizen; TS/SCI with Polygraph; willing to undergo a Moderate Public Trust background investigation.

Responsibilities

• Own your areas with autonomy and drive progress.
• Translate constraints into guardrails for rapid, self-service feedback on service security and efficacy.
• Solve infrastructure problems with code and scale compute capacity.
• Automate governance to replace manual, people-heavy processes.
• Advance CI/CD governance with partner teams while maintaining feature velocity.
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams across Salesforce.
• Evaluate new technologies as needed.
• Contribute to design of test and deploy services.

Skills

Linux engineering

AWS

CI/CD tools

Docker

Kubernetes / EKS

Scripting (Shell, Python, etc)

Security/Compliance in pipelines

Jenkins / Spinnaker

Security clearance (TS/SCI)

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Jenkins

Spinnaker

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

CloudWatch

Job description

Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

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

The Experience

Location: This is an on-site role based in Herndon, Virginia 5 days per week. It is not a remote position.

You will join a team of highly motivated software, systems, and security engineers working on infrastructure at scale in support of United States National Security customers. You will be part of the team that solves infrastructure deployment challenges with software, delivers high-velocity and high-quality infrastructure in specialized cloud environments, and ships solutions. You will work alongside a highly innovative team of developers, open-source committers, and architects across Salesforce.

What You'll Actually Be Doing

• You take ownership of your areas with autonomy and proactively drive progress forward.
• You distill environmental constraints into practical guardrails that give service owners rapid, self-service feedback about the efficacy and security of their service.
• You solve infrastructure problems with code and build compute capacity in a fast-paced environment.
• You transform manual, people-heavy processes into automated governance solutions.
• You advance the governance of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines with partner teams, and you incorporate their feedback to improve efficiency while maintaining service-owner feature velocity, patching, and maintenance.
• You strengthen your influence and collaboration skills by partnering with infrastructure teams across Salesforce.
• You evaluate new technologies to solve problems as needed.
• You play a forward-thinking role in the design of test and deploy services.

You're Our Person If...

• You hold an active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph.
• You have 4+ years of Linux engineering experience.
• You have 3+ years maintaining, building, or patching highly sensitive customer data and environments.
• You have 3+ years deploying with a Continuous Integration (CI) orchestration service such as Jenkins or Spinnaker.
• You have 3+ years working within and building on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• You have 2+ years of experience with a scripting or programming language such as Shell, Perl, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, or Go.
• You have 2+ years deploying distributed applications with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), or similar).

Even Better If...

• You hold a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Computer Science or have equivalent work experience.
• You have experience developing security and compliance into pipelines.
• You have experience with monitoring tools such as Nagios, Graphite, Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus, or Zabbix.

This candidate must be a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized) who does not hold dual citizenship and agrees to complete a U.S. federal government Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) for a Moderate Public Trust position.This position requires a USA TS/SCI with Polygraph security access level.

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