
Software Engineering SMTS
Salesforce4 days ago
Base Salary
$149k - $224k/yr
Responsibilities
- Deliver backend features across Kerberos, TOTP, and FIDO2/WebAuthn authentication services using Java, Go, or C#.
- Implement and maintain identity and federation protocols including Kerberos, LDAP, WebAuthn/FIDO2, TOTP, SAML, and OIDC.
- Contribute to design specifications and research spikes alongside senior engineers.
- Coordinate story-level scope, sequencing, dependencies, and work-item refinement with the Product Owner and tech lead.
- Write, review, test, and improve secure, high-quality production code with strong test coverage.
- Build, deploy, debug, and operate distributed services in public-cloud and hybrid environments.
- Analyze bugs and production issues, contribute to root-cause analyses, and complete incident follow-up actions.
- Participate in the Authentication Platform on-call rotation and handle common production alerts.
- Monitor and extend metrics, logs, traces, and SLIs for owned features against a 4+ nines availability target.
- Work with internal service teams and infrastructure owners on integration questions.
- Maintain technical documentation and operational runbooks.
Requirements
- Five years of software engineering experience.
- Strong production backend programming ability in Java, Go, or C#.
- Working knowledge of at least one identity or federation protocol, including Kerberos, LDAP, WebAuthn/FIDO2, TOTP, SAML, or OIDC.
- Experience building, deploying, and debugging distributed services in AWS, GCP, or hybrid environments using Kubernetes.
- Understanding of software fundamentals including data structures, testing, code review, source control, CI/CD, and Agile team execution.
- Security-first development practices involving least privilege, threat-aware reviews, and automated testing.
- Ability to debug distributed production systems using logs, metrics, and traces.
- Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, or a related field; a bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent is acceptable with additional years of experience.
- Preferred qualifications include IAM specialist depth, familiarity with HSMs, PKI, secure credential storage, PCI, SOC 2, HIPAA, high-visibility on-call operations, and AI-assisted development workflows.
Benefits
- Salesforce provides 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 position’s typical base salary range is $148,500–$223,900 annually, excluding bonus, equity, and benefits.
- The role includes participation in an on-call rotation for a tier-0 production platform.
Tech Stack
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.