JR354749 Lead Software Engineer, PKI & Cryptographic Trust Services
InformaticaBase Salary
$173k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and maintain the unified Registration Authority serving as the certificate-issuance front door for Salesforce’s global multi-cloud platform.
- Design and optimize highly concurrent, multi-substrate Go build paths and synchronous and asynchronous certificate issuance workflows.
- Implement policy engines, authorization controls, workload identity and attestation validation, and certificate lifecycle automation.
- Integrate multiple public and private Certificate Authorities and build resilient certificate provisioning systems.
- Instrument telemetry, distributed tracing, metrics, and alerting to meet stringent availability and performance SLAs.
- Mentor engineers, conduct rigorous code reviews, drive architectural consensus, and establish engineering best practices.
- Respond to complex distributed-systems escalations, identify root causes, and deploy durable architectural fixes.
- Partner with Security Architecture to translate compliance requirements into scalable software controls.
- Establish AI-augmented development practices, prompt engineering workflows, shared system context, and critical evaluation of human- and AI-generated code.
Requirements
- 9+ years of professional software development experience and a track record designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Production-grade expertise in Go, Java, or Rust, including concurrency patterns, memory management, and multi-substrate build configurations.
- Experience deploying and operating highly available, mission-critical services across public clouds such as AWS and GCP.
- Ability to design RESTful and gRPC services backed by distributed state machines and asynchronous processing pipelines.
- Strong observability experience covering telemetry, distributed tracing, metrics, and CI/CD deployment pipelines.
- Experience using AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, or Cursor, along with advanced prompt engineering and shared-context workflows.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred: deep knowledge of PKI, X.509 certificate profiles, mTLS architectures, certificate lifecycle management, and automated certificate provisioning.
- Preferred: familiarity with post-quantum cryptography standards including ML-KEM, crypto-agility, Kubernetes, container orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, and multi-tenant policy engines.
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 role is offered within Salesforce’s broader AI-first engineering environment; the posting does not specify a remote, hybrid, or in-office arrangement.
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About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com