Lead Software Developer - Platform Security
Salesforce2 days ago
Base Salary
$173k - $286k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end software development for security data pipelines from ingestion through canonical data stores and downstream consumers.
- Own architecture for endpoint protection platforms and author system and architecture decision records.
- Design and build APIs, policy evaluation engines, integration adapter registries, and projection and aggregation services.
- Improve platform reliability through monitoring, alerting, infrastructure hardening, and operational support.
- Audit and uplift Salesforce cloud infrastructure against security standards and architect secure networks, operating systems, databases, and applications.
- Build and automate systems for vulnerability identification, intrusion prevention, threat-feed consumption, threat intelligence, and adversary tracking.
- Set engineering standards and mentor engineers through reviews, planning, and technical deep dives.
- Collaborate with security architects, infrastructure, operations, product, and partner engineering teams on integration and dependency alignment.
- Participate in rotating on-call operations and communicate technical findings to engineering, executive, customer, and industry audiences.
Requirements
- 7+ years of core software development experience with mastery of multiple programming languages and platforms.
- Strong database engineering, API development, data-pipeline construction, event-driven architecture, and distributed-systems experience.
- Experience delivering sophisticated public-facing products across multiple releases and the full software lifecycle.
- Experience with infrastructure hardening, availability monitoring, alerting, operational reliability, and MTTR reduction.
- Ability to design systems at scale, lead architecture reviews, create design documentation, and develop long-term performance and scalability strategies.
- Experience with engineering processes including pull-request reviews, design reviews, sprint execution, documentation, and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Experience mentoring engineers and collaborating cross-functionally with technical and executive stakeholders.
- A related technical degree is required.
- Preferred qualifications include EDR or vulnerability-scanning familiarity, security-tooling ecosystem experience, and security data-pipeline experience.
- Desired experience includes 5+ years in a computer network-related occupation; 2+ years with Unix/Linux administration, Windows environments, hardening guidelines, AWS, GCP, Azure, and secure infrastructure; and experience with security disciplines, networking, automation, cryptographic standards, and host, network, and application security.
Benefits
- Benefits include time-off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- The posting states that compensation may also include bonus, incentive compensation, equity, and other benefits, as applicable.
- The role includes rotating on-call support and flexibility for major incidents across time zones.
About Salesforce
Salesforce builds cloud-based customer relationship management software and a broader Customer 360 platform for sales, service, marketing, commerce, and analytics, sold by subscription to businesses and public-sector organizations. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Francisco, it trades on the NYSE under the symbol CRM. Its portfolio includes Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, MuleSoft integration, Tableau analytics, and Slack for collaboration, with extensive developer tools and APIs.