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From the employer's careers site First seen 3 Nov 2026

Senior Manager of Software Engineering - DNS Engineering

Salesforce senior full-time

Salary

$172,500 - $260,100 annually

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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

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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