Senior Systems Engineer

Salesforce

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Work type
On-site
Location
Herndon, VA
Salary
$172,500–$260,100 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
6 days ago
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This role pays more than 91% of similar roles. Most pay $131,152–$182,487 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $216k versus about $157k for comparable roles.

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About Salesforce

Salesforce is the world''s leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform, offering cloud-based software for sales, service, marketing, analytics, and application development. Industry: Enterprise Software & Cloud Computing

Salesforce currently has 221 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $148,500–$260,100 across 125 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Systems Engineer

The Senior Systems Engineer joins a team of software, systems, and security engineers to manage infrastructure at scale for United States National Security customers. This role involves solving infrastructure deployment challenges with software, building compute capacity, and transforming manual processes into automated governance solutions. You will manage environmental constraints, provide self-service feedback on service efficacy and security, and advance Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines. Key technical requirements include an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph, Linux engineering experience, and proficiency in Amazon Web Services. You must demonstrate skills in CI orchestration tools like Jenkins or Spinnaker, containerization using Docker and Kubernetes or EKS, and programming in languages such as Python, Shell, or Go. The work focuses on maintaining highly sensitive customer data within specialized cloud environments.

What does a Systems Engineer earn?

Median $160000 from 251 postings across 41 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Solve infrastructure deployment challenges with software in specialized cloud environments.
  • Build compute capacity and solve infrastructure problems using code.
  • Transform manual, people-heavy processes into automated governance solutions.
  • Advance the governance of CI/CD pipelines to improve efficiency and maintenance.
  • Distill environmental constraints into practical guardrails for service owners.
  • Evaluate new technologies to solve infrastructure and deployment problems.
  • Design test and deploy services for National Security customers.

What we're looking for

  • You must be a U.S. citizen (born or naturalized) who does not hold dual citizenship.
  • You must hold an active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph.
  • You must agree to complete a U.S. federal government Minimum Background Investigation (MBI).
  • You have 4+ years of Linux engineering experience.
  • You have 3+ years maintaining, building, or patching highly sensitive customer data and environments.
  • You have 3+ years deploying with a Continuous Integration (CI) orchestration service such as Jenkins or Spinnaker.
  • You have 3+ years working within and building on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
  • You have 2+ years of experience with a scripting or programming language such as Shell, Perl, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, or Go.
  • You have 2+ years deploying distributed applications with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, or similar).
  • You hold a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Computer Science or have equivalent work experience (preferred).
  • You have experience developing security and compliance into pipelines (preferred).
  • You have experience with monitoring tools such as Nagios, Graphite, Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus, or Zabbix (preferred).

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