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Lead DevOps Engineer

Salesforce
Palo Alto, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 Sept 2025
💰 $200,800/yr

About the role

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Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

About Salesforce

Salesforce 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.

As Lead Software Engineer in the DevOps team, you will build and support applications and infrastructure enabling teams to configure, deploy, operate, and monitor the mission-critical services powering offered by the Commerce Cloud POS Cloud platform that serves the world's leading brands and retailers for their Modern POS Platform. You will work in a highly collaborative and dynamic environment. You will influence the strategy and direction of our infrastructure by helping us build scalable solutions to challenging technical problems.

This position requires onsite presence in Palo Alto and San Francisco offices.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide cloud solutions with high reliability, high availability, fault-tolerance, and high security to meet business requirements.

  • Design, Deploy and maintain enterprise  network, systems and patch management applications within an AWS.

  • Build, design and maintain cloud system that meets compliance standard (SOC, HIPAA, PCI)

  • Responsible for implementation, deployment, and security of container orchestration 

  • Provide thought leadership on state of DevOps and have a quarterly plan for deliverables

  • Implement the initiatives identified for the quarter

  • Design and lead the cloud DevOps practices.

  • Design and deploy end-to-end automated CICD pipeline for all deployments

  • Build and enhance monitoring and alerting infrastructure 

  • Experienced in managing cross-continental networks, and data storage requirements.

  • Troubleshoot issues using system and application logs along with APM tools

Skills & Experience

  • A related technical degree required

  • 10+ years of DevOps Engineering Experience

  • Be a self-starter, able to learn independently and adapt quickly

  • Strong knowledge of AWS and cloud architectures

  • Deep understanding of Amazon Well-Architected framework.

  • Hands-on experience with DevOps tools such as CDK, Terraform, and CloudFormation.

  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS CDK.

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

  • Strong scripting skills using bash, python, etc for automation


Required /Certifications:

  • AWS Solutions Architect Professional Certification

  • AWS DevOps Engineer Professional Certification

  • AWS Security Specialty Certification

  • AWS Advanced Networking Specialty Certification

Benefits & Perks

Check out our benefits site which explains our various benefits, including wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible —

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