# Lead Network Engineer - Backbone Engineering

**Company**: Salesforce
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Lead Network Engineer at Salesforce, you will be part of the Infrastructure Strategy and Data Center Operations team, a dynamic, global team delivering and supporting technology infrastructure in the Salesforce Global Network to meet the substantial growth needs of the business.

The Backbone Engineering team is responsible for network capacity and connectivity strategy for the Salesforce core network, including peering relationships, capacity planning, decision making for new PoP builds. The team is also responsible for the design and maintenance of backbone routing architecture including any automation to make configuration changes easier and more predictable.

Responsibilities:

- Act as a liaison with the vendor sourcing team

- Help develop and maintain metrics on capacity vendors

- Project manage new capacity installs with various teams including sourcing and field engineering

- Update the network and associated datastores for capacity additions and decommissions

- Work with various teams to provide feedback, document, and implement new network designs

- Develop in Python, Ansible for network configuration automation

- Work with connectivity partners and customer engagement teams for customer troubleshooting issues

- Help with BGP peering relationship management and peering network design

- Backbone router migrations/grooms/decoms

- Network design life cycles including documentation and collaborative approvals

- Maintain Network Data SoTs

Requirements:

- Minimum 7 years in production network environments, or comparable experience

- Proven project management skills

- Experience working with telecommunications vendors

- Experience with Cisco and Juniper carrier-class routers (ex: ASR9K, CRS, MX960, PTX, MX2K)

- Experience with Cisco Nexus-based switches

- Knowledge of routing protocols such as BGP and IS-IS

- Fundamental understanding of WDM technologies

- Strong Python coding skills

- Good understanding of Unix/Linux-based operating systems

- Experience developing and maintaining network automation tools (e.g. Ansible)

- Experience with Git, or other version control systems

- Ability to self-manage multiple projects at one time

- Good understanding of the current state of AI, machine learning, LLMs, MCP, etc.

- Related technical degree required

Benefits:

- Accommodations support

- Various benefits and resources to support work-life balance

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Ansible
- Cisco
- Juniper
- BGP
- IS-IS
- WDM
- Unix/Linux
- Git
- Project Management

### Nice to have
- DWDM
- MACSec
- Puppet
- Terraform
- Containers
- K8S
- CI/CD
- AI-assisted coding

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