# Senior Manager of Software Engineering - DNS Engineering

**Company**: Salesforce
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $172,500 - $260,100 annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Salesforce is hiring a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead DNS Engineering, the team that owns the DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) services infrastructure behind every Salesforce product.

You'll lead a team of engineers responsible for authoritative and recursive DNS across Salesforce data centers and Hyperforce public cloud, self-service DNS and IPAM APIs, and DNS security, including DNSSEC and DDoS resilience.

Key responsibilities:

- Set the multi-year strategy and own availability for this Tier-0 service

- Lead the move to cloud-native, multi-provider DNS with automation and AI-assisted operations

- Own availability and live-site health, and lead incident and problem-management processes

- Modernize the platform, and automate through AI and self-service

- Strengthen security posture, and balance the portfolio

- Partner across Salesforce, and communicate upward and outward

Requirements:

- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams

- Deep understanding of DNS and core internet protocols

- Experience owning Tier-0 or Tier-1 services in a 24x7x365, multi-datacenter environment

- Hands-on background in distributed systems, Linux, and backend development

- Experience with public cloud, containers and orchestration, and Infrastructure as Code

The typical base salary range for this position is $172,500 - $260,100 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $207,800 - $285,800 annually.

## Skills

### Required
- DNS
- distributed systems
- Linux
- backend development
- public cloud
- containers
- orchestration
- Infrastructure as Code

### Nice to have
- authoritative and recursive DNS
- managed DNS services
- DDI/IPAM platforms
- DDoS mitigation
- anycast
- traffic engineering
- global traffic management

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