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Senior Manager/Director - Software Engineering / Network Security
Location: San Francisco, California

Salesforce's Network Security team is seeking a Senior Manager/Director to lead the network security engineering efforts. You will be leading the team responsible for designing, building and maintaining innovative security services and solutions that support the needs of our internal and external customers. The team may work on any aspect of public cloud security, including Micro-Segmentation, Zero-Trust, Network ACLs, L4/L7 Firewall, WAF, mTLS, monitoring, and automation. As Senior Manager/Director of Software Development, you will manage a new development team responsible for designing, coding and maintaining such innovative security platforms. You will be responsible for hiring and retaining the best security talent around, growing your team and the people on it, and helping guide the technical direction.
ABOUT YOU

• Are interested in growing, automating and developing cutting edge Network Security public cloud architecture, software, and tools; you thrive on building services to meet customer's needs and clearly understand how security done properly is a massive business enabler
• Excellent technical skills, combined with excellent people management skills
• Keen reader of people, culture; builds the relationships to make things happen
• Highly functional in a dynamic, challenging environment
• Top notch communications and collaborative superstar
• Able to balance the needs of delivery with an agile mindset

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Hiring and retaining the best security talent around, growing your team and the people on it, and helping guide the technical direction.
• Lead the team developing distributed systems to deliver security controls at the network level in Salesforce's public and private clouds. Such solutions cover but are not limited to network policy management, ACLs enforcement, distributed firewalls, DDoS and network protection for bare metal servers, containers, and VMs
• Lead research and implementation of new networking security solutions and platforms for intra- and cross-datacenter network flows
• Advance and operate these security scanning platforms in a full DevOps model
• Operate in an Agile development environment, including participating in daily scrums
• Support the team's engineering excellence by performing code reviews and help setting best software development practices
• Partners with other engineering teams and executives to develop short- and long-term security, product and service strategies.
• Collaborate with other teams to solve security problems with minimal disruption to other business functions.
• Continuous improvement of policies, procedures and technology.
• Interact with industry experts, partners, internal staff and auditors.
• Work effectively as part of a geographically distributed team.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Industry experience. 10+ years, including:
  • 5+ years experience in SaaS, PaaS or IaaS software development
  • 5+ years experience in a high-availability 24/7 environment
  • 5+ years of experience in public cloud environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
  • 5+ years of experience in developing Network Security Technologies like - Micro-Segmentation, Zero-Trust, Network ACLs, L4/L7 Firewall, WAF, mTLS solutions
  • 2+ years of experience with Service Mesh, Istio, Envoy development and deployment
• Management experience. 5+ years of direct people management experience, with at least 5 direct reports.
• Network Security:
  • Industry-level expertise in L4/Layer 7 Firewall & WAF Development
  • Expertise in Network security platforms, including segmentation, ACLs, DPI, DDoS protection. Examples include:
    • Software: iptables, ipsec, VPN, IDS, firewall management platforms, ACL compilers and tooling
    • Hardware: switch ACLs, stateful firewalls, network segmentation, security zones
  • Network control planes and agents (Calico, Flannel, Contiv, Contrail, OVN)
  • OSI model and debugging network traffic
  • Networking protocols (TCP/UDP, BGP, DNS, DHCP)
  • Datacenter network architecture at software platform and hardware devices (NAT, VXLAN, overlay/underlay)
  • Network security architectures and implementations in public clouds (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Platform development. Proven track of developing and delivering large-scale PaaS or IaaS systems, especially for public cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Programming. Proficiency in object-oriented and multi-threaded programming in at least one of the following languages: Golang, Java, C++, Python
• Full-software ownership from idea to running in production: design, code, writing unit tests, performing integration tests, deploying to production, supporting the system in the production environments
• Operating systems. Development and software management on Linux systems (e.g., CentOS, RHEL)
• Security. Strong knowledge in security fundamentals: secure transport (e.g., SSL, TLS), identity management (e.g., certificates, PKI)
• DevOps mindset and strong ownership over owned code (test, monitor, deploy, maintain)
• Communication. Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Team. Ability to value team success beyond personal contributions
• Experience designing and operating network security technologies within public cloud environments.
• Strong distributed systems and architecture knowledge.
• Understanding of risks that can manifest in larger scale complex systems.

• Education. M.S in Computer Science/Engineering or B.S. in same disciplines with equivalent years of experience

DESIRED SKILLS

• Prior understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Experience with SDN, NFV, network automation
• Terraform, Helm chart experience

TOP 5 REASONS TO JOIN THE TEAM

• Opportunity to lead the efforts to build and deliver new services for large scale cloud infrastructure
• Opportunity to lead the efforts to build services that is cloud agnostic
• Thrive in a culture of ownership, delivery, and innovation
• Drive the end-to-end delivery of world-class security solutions
• Be a catalyst for change in the realm of World-Class Technology and Products
• Enjoy a hyper-transparent flow of information, conversation and ideas
• Innovate and invent the future of Agile and Social program management

Company Overview:
Salesforce, the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM, empowers companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way. The company was founded on three disruptive ideas: a new technology model in cloud computing, a pay-as-you-go business model, and a new integrated corporate philanthropy model. These founding principles have taken our company to great heights, including being named one of Forbes's "World's Most Innovative Company" five years in a row and one of Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For" eight years in a row. We are the fastest growing of the top 10 enterprise software companies, and one of the top 5 largest cloud business providers. Together, with our whole Ohana (Hawaiian for "family") made up of our employees, customers, partners and communities, we are working to improve the state of the world.

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Posting Statement

At Salesforce we believe that the business of business is to improve the state of our world. Each of us has a responsibility to drive Equality in our communities and workplaces. We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives such as equal pay, employee resource groups, inclusive benefits, and more. Learn more about Equality at Salesforce and explore our benefits.

Salesforce.com and Salesforce.org are Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employers. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Salesforce.com and Salesforce.org do not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Salesforce.com and Salesforce.org will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Salesforce.com or Salesforce.org.

Salesforce welcomes all.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.