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.