Salesforce
Director of Software Engineering, DNS Engineering
$197K–$345K
Washington - Bellevue +1 · Office - Flexible · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- Washington - Bellevue
California - San Francisco - Experience
- 12+ years in software engineering; 5+ years leading engineering teams; at least 2 years managing managers.
- Education
- BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the strategy, engineering, security, and operations of Salesforce’s Tier-0 DNS and DDI infrastructure across data centers and public cloud.
What you'll do
- Set the multi-year DNS/DDI roadmap and lead delivery, modernization, and operational excellence.
- Build and lead engineering teams; own availability, SLOs, incident response, and live-site health.
- Advance automation, self-service, security, and AI-assisted operations while coordinating with partner teams.
What they ask for
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams and at least 2 years managing managers.
- Deep knowledge of DNS and internet protocols, plus experience operating Tier-0 or Tier-1 services in 24x7x365, multi-datacenter environments.
- Experience with distributed systems, Linux, backend development, public cloud, Kubernetes or Docker, and Infrastructure as Code.
- BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- Python or Go; experience with DNS technologies such as BIND, dnsdist, PowerDNS, or Unbound, and managed DNS services.
- Experience with DDI/IPAM platforms, large infrastructure migrations, DDoS mitigation, or agentic/ML-driven operations tools.
Pay
USD $197,300 - $313,700 annually (base salary); USD $237,700 - $344,700 annually (base salary)
Tools
BIND, dnsdist, AWS Route 53, GCP Cloud DNS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Puppet, Splunk
AI focus
Use AI-assisted development and agentic tooling to reduce toil, catch risky changes, and speed investigations; experience driving productivity with AI-assisted development tools and automation is required.
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