# Software Engineer - Architect

**Company**: Salesforce
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $218,400 - $365,200 annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Salesforce is seeking a highly experienced Software Engineer - Architect to define the strategy and technical direction for the foundation of its global, multi-cloud platform.

As an Architect, you will design for continuous global availability, guide the evolution of cryptography without disrupting dependent services, and implement working systems across multiple engineering teams.

**Responsibilities:**

- Own the target architecture and multi-year strategy for certificate lifecycle, trust distribution, and cryptographic identity across workloads and AI agents, and lead execution through production.

- Architect highly available, globally scalable trust infrastructure with measurable Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and fleet-wide automated certificate renewal capabilities.

- Drive automation-first, cost-effective architecture focused on zero-touch lifecycle operations, zero-downtime migrations, and data-driven build-versus-buy decisions.

- Establish architectural and security standards for the interfaces between the trust platform and dependent infrastructure, and guide teams through complex design trade-offs.

- Stay hands-on by prototyping, writing critical-path code, and validating architecture in live systems.

- Present investment and architecture proposals to senior leadership, mentor engineering leads, and scale technical expertise across the organization.

**Requirements:**

- 12+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure services, with a proven track record of driving multi-team technical strategy into production.

- Deep expertise in distributed-systems architecture, reliability, and performance at scale.

- Hands-on experience operating mission-critical, highly available services on public cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including Kubernetes and service mesh.

- Security domain experience in identity and authorization, applied cryptography, or infrastructure security.

- Working knowledge of PKI, X.509 certificates, mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS), and key management.

- Proven leadership in aligning cross-organizational initiatives without direct authority.

- Strong communication skills, with a track record of authoring adopted architecture proposals and presenting effectively to both engineers and executives.

- Demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering, using AI to move faster, build fluency across the stack, and contribute well beyond your core specialty.

- Experience using AI tools (for example, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, or Cursor) in development workflows.

- Related technical degree.

**Benefits:**

- Time off programs

- Medical, dental, vision

- Mental health support

- Paid parental leave

- Life and disability insurance

- 401(k)

- Employee stock purchasing program

**Salary Range:** $218,400 - $365,200 annually In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $263,200 - $401,400 annually.

## Skills

### Required
- distributed-systems architecture
- cryptography
- cloud platforms
- Kubernetes
- service mesh
- identity and authorization
- applied cryptography
- infrastructure security
- PKI
- X.509 certificates
- mTLS
- key management
- AI-first approach
- AI tools

### Nice to have
- post-quantum cryptography
- workload identity standards
- short-lived credentials
- Merkle Tree Certificates
- crypto-agility design principles

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