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From the employer's careers site First seen 27 Oct 2026 · Still live on 31 Oct 2026

Software Engineer

Salesforce Herndon, Virginia On-site senior full-time

Salary

$172,500 - $260,100 annually

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Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer to join our team in Herndon, Virginia. As a Software Engineer at Salesforce, you will work on infrastructure at scale in support of United States National Security customers. You will be part of a team that solves infrastructure deployment challenges with software, delivers high-velocity and high-quality infrastructure in specialized cloud environments, and ships solutions.

Responsibilities:

  • Take ownership of your areas with autonomy and proactively drive progress forward.
  • Distill environmental constraints into practical guardrails that give service owners rapid, self-service feedback about the efficacy and security of their service.
  • Solve infrastructure problems with code and build compute capacity in a fast-paced environment.
  • Transform manual, people-heavy processes into automated governance solutions.
  • Advance the governance of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines with partner teams, and incorporate their feedback to improve efficiency while maintaining service-owner feature velocity, patching, and maintenance.
  • Strengthen your influence and collaboration skills by partnering with infrastructure teams across Salesforce.
  • Evaluate new technologies to solve problems as needed.
  • Play a forward-thinking role in the design of test and deploy services.

Requirements:

  • 4+ years of Linux engineering experience.
  • 3+ years maintaining, building, or patching highly sensitive customer data and environments.
  • 3+ years deploying with a Continuous Integration (CI) orchestration service such as Jenkins or Spinnaker.
  • 3+ years working within and building on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
  • 2+ years of experience with a scripting or programming language such as Shell, Perl, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, or Go.
  • 2+ years deploying distributed applications with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), or similar).
  • Active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph.

Benefits:

  • Time off programs
  • Medical, dental, vision
  • Mental health support
  • Paid parental leave
  • Life and disability insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Employee stock purchasing program

The typical base salary range for this position is $172,500 - $260,100 annually.

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Computer Science
  • Experience developing security and compliance into pipelines
  • Monitoring tools such as Nagios, Graphite, Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus, or Zabbix
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