Lead Software Engineer, Application Security and DDoS

at  Salesforce

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Software Engineering
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REQUIREMENTS

• Industry experience. 8+ years in Infrastructure or Security Architecture including:
• 3+ years experience in SaaS, PaaS or IaaS software development
• 3+ years experience in networking, security, or DDoS.
• 3+ years experience in a high-availability 24/7 environment (cloud platforms are a plus)
• Platform development: Demonstrated experience of designing and coding large-scale PaaS or IaaS systems, especially for public cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud)
• Programming. Proficiency in object-oriented and multi-threaded programming in at least one of the following languages: Golang, Java, C++, Python
• Operating systems. Development and software management on Linux systems (e.g., CentOS, RHEL)
• DevOps approach and strong ownership over owned code (test, monitor, deploy, maintain)
• Networking and Application Security) . Industry-level expertise in any of the following networking (security) aspects
• Familiar with denial of service attacks, mitigation strategies, and industry best practices
• Familiar with OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities, CWE, and related countermeasures
• Network security platforms, including segmentation, ACLs, DDoS protection.
• OSI model and debugging network traffic.
• Networking protocols (TCP/UDP, BGP, DNS, DHCP)
• Datacenter network architecture at software platform and hardware devices (NAT, VXLAN, overlay/underlay)
• Network security architectures and implementations in public clouds (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)Experience with log analysis and monitoring systems such as Splunk, ELK, Grafana, etc.

DESIRED SKILLS

• Distributed systems. Expertise in designing, implementing and operated distributed systems architectures and concepts, including any of the following:
• Network Security - 5+ years of experience in Application Security or Security Architecture
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RESPONSIBILITIES

• Architect and implement distributed systems to deliver security controls at the network level in Salesforce’s public and private clouds. Such solutions cover but are not limited to network policy management, ACLs enforcement, distributed firewalls, DDoS and network protection for bare metal servers, containers, and VMs
• Develop software solutions and microservices to support our network security platforms at one or more of the following levels: low-level OS components, datacenter distributed platforms, user interfaces
• Advance and operate these security platforms in a full DevOps model
• Support the team’s engineering excellence by performing code reviews and mentoring junior team members
• Partners with other engineering teams and executives to develop short and long-term security, product, and service strategies.
• Collaborate with other teams to solve security problems with minimal disruption to other business functions.