Senior Software Engineer (SMTS), Identity & Access Management Device Trust

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.Job CategorySoftware EngineeringJob DetailsAbout SalesforceSalesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword - it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.The ExperienceThe Salesforce Enterprise Security Engineering team designs and operates highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems that deliver cloud-scale security software across multiple public cloud platforms and Salesforce's internal infrastructure. We provide the core building blocks that protect customer trust in Salesforce's products and services.As a software engineer on our Identity and Access Management (IAM) platform team, you work at the intersection of distributed systems and enterprise security - building the foundational services that let every Salesforce engineer operate securely, regardless of environment. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role on one of our most critical platform investments: a unified, policy-driven containment and device trust infrastructure underpinning Salesforce's Zero Trust and Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture. What You'll Actually Be Doing * Design and build scalable authentication and authorization services for distributed environments. * Develop and maintain system software for multiple operating systems (Linux, macOS, Windows). * Implement and operate large-scale security services using Golang or Python. * Integrate and extend secure device attestation mechanisms, including Trusted Platform Module (TPM)-based hardware trust. * Contribute to platform-level identity and security solutions using Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), certificates, and secure transport. * Build and manage containerized workloads with Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform. * Operate and maintain services in a full DevOps model: monitor, troubleshoot, and continuously improve. * Work in an Agile team to deliver iteratively and collaboratively. * Partner with cross-functional teams across security, infrastructure, and engineering to ensure platform integrity and trustworthiness. You're Our Person If... * You have 7+ years of industry experience, including at least 5+ years building distributed systems in Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environments, and 5+ years operating in high-availability, mission-critical environments (99.999% uptime). * You have strong experience designing and operating distributed systems on public cloud platforms (Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure). * You are proficient in Golang and/or Python. * You have expertise in security protocols and identity frameworks: Transport Layer Security (TLS), OAuth, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), PKI, and certificates. * You are familiar with system patterns and Application Programming Interface (API) standards including REST and OpenAPI/Swagger. * You have solid understanding of DevOps practices, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), monitoring, and full ownership of production systems. * You have experience building software for Linux and/or Windows environments. * You have experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, or AWS CodeBuild. * You have a working understanding of large-scale infr