Salesforce Systems Engineering Principal 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

271019080

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Responsibilities

• Architect and implement 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, DDoS and network protection for containers.

• Develop software solutions and microservices to support our network security platforms in public clouds.

• Research and implement 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 mentoring junior team members

Requirements

• Industry experience:15+ years including:

  • 10+ years’ experience in SaaS, PaaS or IaaS software development

  • 5+ years’ experience in a high-availability 24/7 environment (cloud platforms are a plus)

• Education: ME/M.Tech in Computer Science/Engineering or BE/B.Tech. in same disciplines with equivalent years of experience

• Network Security: Hands-on expertise in building or managing software platforms for network security, including segmentation, ACLs, DPI, DDoS protection. Examples include:

  • Software: iptables, ipsec, VPN, IDS

  • WAF/OWASP protections etc

• Networking:Industry-level expertise in any of the following networking aspects

  • VM and containers network stacks (OpenStack’s Neutron, Cilium, Romana)

  • 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)

• Programming:Proficiency in object-oriented and multi-threaded programming in at least one of the following languages: Golang, Java, C++, Python

• Platform development:Proven track of designing and coding large-scale PaaS or IaaS systems, especially for public cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Software design:Demonstrated expertise in applying systems patterns (e.g., Client-server, N-tier, Master/Slave, MVC) and API constructions (e.g., Swagger, OpenAPI)

• Operating systems:Development and software management on Linux systems (e.g., CentOS, RHEL)

• Security:Strong knowledge in security fundamentals:authentication/authorizationframeworks (e.g., SSO, SAML, Oauth), secure transport (e.g., SSL, TLS), identity management (e.g., certificates, PKI)

• DevOps mindsetand strong ownership over owned code (test, monitor, deploy, maintain)

• Communication: Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Team:

Desired Skills/Experience

• Distributed systems:Expertise in designing, implementing and operating distributed systems architectures and concepts, including any of the following:

  • High-performance, high-availability (99.999%) and self-recoverable systems

  • Control, orchestration and automation platforms

  • RPC frameworks (e.g., Protobuf/gRPC, Thrift, Bond)

  • Consensus and consistency frameworks (e.g., Paxos, Raft, strong/eventual consistency)

  • Data-processing systems (e.g., Lambda architecture, Kafka, RabbitMQ, ELK)

  • Storage solutions (e.g., Cassandra, MongoDB, Hadoop, Redis, Zookeeper)

• VMs/Containers:Hands-on experience with VMs and container technologies (e.g., OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes)

• Full-software ownershipfrom idea to running in production: design, code, writing unit tests, performing integration tests, deploying to production, supporting the system in the production environments

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