Salesforce Senior Director - Software Engineering DNS 

United States, Washington, Bellevue 

784998793

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Responsibilities:

* Lead the design, development, and operation of Salesforce's global DNS infrastructure, spanning Public Cloud platforms (like AWS, GCP) and privately owned datacenters.
* Own the full DNS stack including authoritative and recursive servers, control planes, telemetry, alerting, and lifecycle automation.
* Ensure the availability, correctness, and fault tolerance of DNS services with a relentless focus on uptime and performance. (24x7x365)
* Lead the response and root cause analysis of DNS-related incidents with a strong emphasis on continuous improvement and learning.
* Guide architectural decisions, oversee complex migrations, and ensure scalable, automation-first solutions are implemented.
* Drive long-term vision for DNS within the company, including the evolution of service discovery and name resolution systems.
* Partner with engineering, infrastructure, security, and product teams to align DNS systems with broader platform and business goals.
* Represent DNS in company-wide initiatives and ensure that services meet the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
* Lead the recruitment, development, and mentorship of a diverse team of engineers and operations staff. This includes driving hiring strategies, guiding performance, and fostering a culture rooted in ownership, technical excellence, and continuous learning.
* Establish and monitor SLAs, KPIs, and operational metrics to ensure the team delivers against business and technical goals.
* Provide input to strategic planning, resource forecasting, and budget allocation related to DNS and infrastructure services.
* Effectively manage vendor relationships with our third party providers.
* Experienced dealing and operating with domain name registries and registrars.

Required Skills:

* Deep knowledge of DNS protocols, architectures (authoritative and recursive), caching strategies, and anycast/multicast network principles.
* Strong leadership and management capabilities, effectively guiding and developing engineers at all levels of experience.
* Effective communicator with experience translating technical topics into business value and strategic impact with a proven ability to influence and persuade both technical and non-technical audiences.
* Experience operating critical Internet infrastructure and services with High Availability and resiliency requirements.
* Understanding of managed DNS providers and internal service discovery mechanisms. Proficient in operating systems in AWS, GCP, or Azure, including services like EC2, VPC, Lambda, S3, IAM, and Route 53.
* Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, CI/CD concepts/tools ,monitoring/observability/alertingtools (Grafana, Thousand Eyes).
* Background as a senior software development engineer with experience in hands-on design, coding and deploying large-scale applications with high availability and high security requirements.
* Strong understanding of how Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies can be applied to infrastructure management, aiding software development, capacity forecasting, operations augmentation, support intake, and cost optimization.
* Familiarity with predictive modeling, data science, and the application of analytics to cloud resource management.

Desired Skills

* 10+ years of experience in software engineering or infrastructure operations, with at least 5 years in a technical leadership or management role overseeing large-scale distributed systems.
* Proven experience designing, operating, and scaling DNS systems (authoritative and recursive) in a production environment.
* Strong technical understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and Cloud/Container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
* Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, including, IP routing, Anycast, DNSSEC, and service discovery architectures.
* Past experience as a senior software development engineer or principal-level contributor with a strong grasp of object-oriented design and backend systems.
* Familiarity with SRE principles, including incident response, operational metrics, root cause analysis, and building fault-tolerant systems.
* Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional alignment and influence stakeholders at all levels, including executive leadership.
* Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. Equivalent industry experience also considered.

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to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $230,700 to $351,800. For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $251,900 to $384,100.