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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.
About Agentforce:
At Salesforce, Agentforce embodies our commitment to leveraging AI, data analytics, and CRM to revolutionize business operations. Agentforce integrates advanced AI capabilities and real-time data insights to deliver Agentic AI solutions. Designed to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and provide actionable intelligence, Agentforce ensures that organizations can augment their workforces with digital labor. Upholding the highest standards of trust and security, Agentforce empowers businesses to build stronger customer relationships, drive growth, and achieve their goals with unparalleled efficiency and reliability.
Secrets team, within the Data Security org, is looking for a Principal Software Engineer. As a technical leader on the team, you will play a crucial role in designing and developing robust secrets management solutions. You will lead multiple initiatives in parallel, mentor junior engineers via code reviews and technical guidance. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance our security posture and streamline operations. You will work on building solutions for challenging problem statements to improve our service availability and performance. This is a highly hands-on leadership role where you will actively write code, tackle complex technical challenges, and lead by example.
Primary Responsibilities:
* Architect the Future of Secrets Management: Define and lead the technical roadmap for our core Secrets product, spearheading the architecture for highly secure, multi-cloud Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments tailored strictly for secret storage, access, and distribution.
* Champion Mission-Critical Reliability: Own the end-to-end lifecycle of highly sensitive, "Tier 0" systems. Architect profoundly scalable, self-healing services that guarantee zero-downtime access to secrets, resolving complex distributed system issues to ensure unwavering resilience.
* Advance Cryptography & Zero-Trust Identity: Serve as a domain expert in PKI, X.509, and cryptography. Continuously evaluate and integrate emerging technologies to pioneer new approaches for dynamic secret generation, automated key rotation, device identity, and zero-trust authentication.
* Innovate Secure Secret Distribution: Lead research and development efforts to prototype and deploy cutting-edge features for secure credential delivery. Enable highly secure real-time and non-real-time peer-to-peer communication across heterogeneous networks, ensuring strict access controls and minimizing blast radius.
Qualifications:
* Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering required; Masters degree preferred.
* 12+ years of hands-on experience working in a software development role in a product based software technology company.
* 8+ years experience in development in public cloud environments (AWS preferred; GCP a plus)
* Hands-On Engineering & Data: Deep, hands-on programming expertise in Golang, Java, C#, Python, Rust, or C/C++ with a proven track record of designing highly available, scalable data tiers using relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Postgres, DynamoDB, Cassandra).
* Cloud-Native Architecture & Infrastructure: Advanced command of cloud computing paradigms, encompassing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and core distributed networking (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing).
* Security & Open Source: Applied knowledge of cloud security design, Secrets Management (Hashicorp Vault experience is a plus), PKI/X.509, and OWASP principles.
* Architecture & Leadership: Proven ability to translate strategic vision into tactical architecture, paired with strong cross-functional leadership and excellent problem solving skills.
Unleash Your Potential
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering
- Master's degree
- 12+ years hands-on software development experience in a product-based software company
- 8+ years development experience in public cloud environments (AWS preferred; GCP a plus)
- Experience with AWS (preferred)
- Hands-on programming expertise in Golang, Java, C#, Python, Rust, or C/C++
- Designing highly available, scalable data tiers using relational and NoSQL databases (Postgres, DynamoDB, Cassandra)
- Cloud-native architecture and infrastructure experience: Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Docker, Kubernetes, container orchestration
- Core distributed networking knowledge: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing
- Applied knowledge of cloud security design, secrets management (HashiCorp Vault a plus), PKI/X.509, and OWASP principles
- Proven architecture leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and strong problem-solving skills
Salesforce Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is positioned as above-market in the U.S., with multiple peer-reported benchmarks converging around a similar median total compensation figure. Compensation is also framed as broadly viewed as fair in aggregate, even while acknowledging variation by role and group.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as notably generous for U.S. caregivers, with additional supports like gradual return-to-work and doula reimbursement. Family-building programs are also emphasized through fertility/adoption/surrogacy support with sizeable reimbursement limits.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Mental-health and coaching offerings are highlighted as accessible supports alongside financial-wellbeing tools. Volunteer Time Off and donation matching are presented as distinctive lifestyle-aligned benefits that add value beyond cash compensation.
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What We Do
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where Humans with agents drive customer success together. Through Agentforce, our groundbreaking suite of customizable agents and tools, Salesforce brings autonomous AI agents, unified data from any source, and best-in-class Customer 360 apps together on one integrated platform to help companies connect with customers in a whole new way. Salesforce is democratizing AI agents for businesses of every size and industry so every company can embrace a workforce without limits. Our low code, open, and secure platform helps companies build and customize Salesforce fast so they can safely scale AI-powered work to every customer and employee experience and transform their business. Salesforce is proud to be the market leader, but we’re even more proud to lead in philanthropy, innovation and culture. Guided by core values of trust, customer success, innovation, equality, and sustainability, Salesforce is more than a business — we’re a platform for change.
Why Work With Us
There’s no typical day in the life of a Salesforce employee. You could be transforming our next AI innovation — or transforming your community. Closing deals — or closing your laptop for a day of Volunteer Time Off. Driving change for our customers — or driving change within one of our high-performing teams.
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