Infrastructure and Network Architect

Company: Salesforce
Location: Bellevue
Posted on: February 25, 2021

Job Description:

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 CategoryProducts and TechnologyJob DetailsSalesforce Marketing Cloud is a leading SaaS provider for cross-channel digital marketing solutions that empower organizations of all sizes to communicate with their customers through email, mobile, social media, Web and marketing automation. We're driven by a deep understanding of marketers' needs-because we're marketers too. No other digital marketing company invests in product innovation the way we do, giving our clients access to truly cutting-edge technology. Joining forces with salesforce.com, pioneers in cloud computing, we offer an even more superior experience to our customers and employees.

As a Software Architect for Infrastructure and Networking at Salesforce, you'll work across the world's largest marketing cloud's tech stack. From App, to Platform, to Networking, and Hardware; you'll tackle some of the most complex problems customers face at scale. Salesforce Marketing Cloud is the engine behind everything from banking alerts, to ticket sales to ride share notifications to shopping cart experiences to email marketing for most large retail and tech companies in the world with a 75% market share in enterprise dwarfing its competitors by far and positioned to grow from a 2B USD business to 6B USD business in 5 years. With this scale comes challenges and technical and architectural problems and optimizations that need a breadth and depth expert who can traverse the stack and troubleshoot, design, improve. The role will report directly to the Senior Vice President of Data, Infra, and Intelligence Platforms Engineering and engage with leadership and executives and engineers across the board. Given the scope and potential for impact of the role, this has opportunity to grow multiple levels in the future.

Responsibilities:
As a Software Architect for Infrastructure and Networking Salesforce Marketing Cloud, your key job responsibility is to design infrastructure and network topologies, architectures, and services that are reliable, available, performant and achieve SaaS scale aligned with our hyper growth. Our Engineers contribute significantly to each team's roadmap, and constantly help us to determine priorities. You will work with the leadership team to decide on the projects that best support your team's mission. The primary area of responsibility you as an individual contributor will have is to design ahead of customer or technology needs, always predicting and solving for problems that have not yet occurred, and constantly modernizing and scaling our underlying network, infrastructure, and platforms. This takes the form of discovering and finding gaps in current state, creating and defending High Level Design (HLD) documents, working with vendors and internal stakeholders to influence technology roadmaps, constructing and testing your solutions, and providing technical leadership and support to the teams that will deploy and operate these designs.

Basic Qualifications:
We're interested in engineers with experience having designed, operated, and implemented networks of very large and cloud scale, and those well versed in the operation of the Internet routing hierarchy, data center fundamentals, and public cloud constructs. Candidates should understand the theory behind and have deep operational knowledge of routing protocols with particular emphasis on their impact to hardware platforms. We're looking for those who have pushed platforms to their limits, understand how to work within the limitations imposed by third-party software and how to avoid them through your designs.

-- A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience is mandatory.
-- Excellent IP networking fundamentals and extensive experience in the application of IP protocols as well as network analysis fundamentals and robust troubleshooting skills.
- Troubleshooting traffic engineering, designing gateways, optimizing load balancers and large scale network design and maintenance is critical.
-- In-depth knowledge of and experience with major internet routing protocols
-- Understanding and experience with Internet peering ecosystems and Internet scale traffic engineering is a must
-- In-depth knowledge of and experience with hardware and data center constructs and design and experience in public cloud topologies
-- Experience managing large projects to completion is a must, either as project manager or lead. NDEs are expected to self-manage several projects at a time, providing regular status updates and identifying and pushing through obstacles.

Preferred Qualifications:
Candidates should have a minimum of 10 years industry experience in a similar environment and/or role .
-- Background in high availability, global backbone design, load balancers and infra architecture is highly preferred.
-- Strong programming and Unix/Linux skills and the ability to script in Python, Perl, shell, C or C++ is desirable.
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