Lead Software Engineer, PKI & Cryptographic Trust Services

Salesforce
San Francisco, Bellevue
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 172,500 - 260,100 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 9+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Mentoring","Code reviews","Architectural consensus","Root-cause analysis","Prompt engineering"]

Lead the design, build, and scaling of a unified Registration Authority (RA) that acts as the certificate-issuance front door for a global, multi-cloud platform. Own highly concurrent Go services and distributed state-machine orchestration for synchronous/asynchronous issuance, lifecycle management, and policy/authorization controls. Drive observability, CI/CD, resilient, well-tested production delivery, and mentor engineers while partnering with Security Architecture to automate compliance-ready crypto trust.

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Lead Software Engineer, PKI & Cryptographic Trust Services

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Job Summary

Lead the design, build, and scaling of a unified Registration Authority (RA) that acts as the certificate-issuance front door for a global, multi-cloud platform. Own highly concurrent Go services and distributed state-machine orchestration for synchronous/asynchronous issuance, lifecycle management, and policy/authorization controls. Drive observability, CI/CD, resilient, well-tested production delivery, and mentor engineers while partnering with Security Architecture to automate compliance-ready crypto trust.
Location: San Francisco, Bellevue
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Architect, build, and maintain the unified Registration Authority (RA) for certificate issuance across a global multi-cloud platform.
  • •Design and optimize highly concurrent, multi-substrate build paths in Go and ensure seamless deployment across public-cloud environments.
  • •Develop and scale synchronous and asynchronous certificate issuance paths using distributed state-machine orchestration.
  • •Implement hierarchical policy engines and authorization controls to validate workload identity and attestation; integrate and abstract multiple Certificate Authorities (CAs).
  • •Lead engineering excellence through resilient, observable, strictly tested code, instrumentation (telemetry/tracing/alerting), and mentoring/rigorous code reviews.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 172,500 - 260,100 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionParental LeaveLife InsuranceDisability Insurance401kEquity

Key Requirements

  • •9+ years of professional software development experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
  • •Production-grade expertise in Go (Golang), Java, or Rust with advanced concurrency and memory-management knowledge.
  • •Experience deploying and operating highly available, mission-critical services across public clouds such as AWS and GCP.
  • •Ability to design resilient RESTful and gRPC services backed by distributed state machines and asynchronous processing pipelines.
  • •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience:9+ yearsDistributed systemsMulti-cloudSecurityPKI
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Skills:MentoringCode reviewsArchitectural consensusRoot-cause analysisPrompt engineering
Tech Stack:GoJavaRustAWSGCPRESTGRPCKubernetesCI/CDTelemetryDistributed tracingMetricsGitHub CopilotClaude CodeCodexCursorPrompt engineering

Company Brief

Salesforce
Provides a leading cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform with sales, service, marketing, analytics, and integration tools that empower businesses to manage customer relationships and digital transformation at scale.
Industry: SaaS
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 1999
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