Engineering Director - IAM

Job Description

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.Job CategoryProducts and Technology Job DetailsJob Title:Director of Software Development, Security EngineeringJob Category:Technology - Infrastructure EngineeringLocation:India - BangaloreThe Security Engineering team is hiring a Director of Software Development to lead the development of foundational Identity and Access Management platform services. Our Security Software Engineering team builds and operates highly scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems to deliver cloud-scale security software services. We provide the fundamental building blocks to improve and preserve customer trust in Salesforces products across multiple public cloud substrates and our own network infrastructure.One of the key investments is in the area of Identity and Access, where we design and implement consistent and scalable identity and access services for all of Salesforce, integrating our IT network, public cloud infrastructure and our own data centers, and empowering all our engineers to operate these environments in a secure manner. We are part of a growing team with highly visible and impactful projects. This is a great opportunity for ambitious engineers who want technical growth in both distributed systems development and identity and access management, while operating on a large scale cloud platform.As Director of Software Development, you will manage a new development team responsible for designing, coding and maintaining such innovative security platforms. You will be responsible for hiring and retaining the best security talent around, growing your team and the people on it, and helping guide the technical direction.This position is located in Bangalore, India and will report into our U.S. security leadership.Responsibilities

• Develop short- and long-term product and service strategies in partnership with other engineering and operations teams
• Drive design and implementation of innovative distributed software platforms for continuous assessment of security posture of the code and third-party packages used by Salesforce engineers
• Lead development teams in a full-service ownership model following Agile methodologies
• Manage devops activities for owned services in a 24/7 runtime environment, including driving investigations to determine root cause and implement solutions.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to solve security problems with minimal disruption to other business functions.
• Hire, train and assess the performance of direct reports according to corporate policies and procedures.
• Assist in the growth of employees through coaching, training and career development activities.
• Interact with industry experts, vendors, partners, internal staff and auditors
• Work effectively as part of a geographically distributed team
• Occasional travel is required (domestic and international)

Required Skills/Experience

• Industry experience. 10 years of experience in software development, including:
  • 5 years experience in SaaS, PaaS or IaaS software development
  • 5 years experience in a high-availability 24/7 environment (cloud platforms are a plus)
• Management experience. 3 years of direct people management experience, with at least 5 direct reports.
• Education. M.Sc/M.Eng in Computer Science/Engineering or B.A/B.Sc. in same disciplines with equivalent years of experience
• Platform development. Proven track of designing, coding and delivering large-scale PaaS or IaaS systems, especially on public cloud substrates (AWS/GCP)
• Programming. Proficiency in object-oriented and multi-threaded programming to support code-reviews and guiding engineers in at least one of the following languages: Golang, Java, C, Python
• Security. Strong knowledge in security fundamentals: authentication/authorization frameworks (e.g., SSO, SAML, Oauth), secure transport (e.g., SSL, TLS), identity management (e.g., certificates, PKI), vulnerability management
• DevOps mindset and strong ownership over owned code (test, monitor, deploy, maintain)
• Team. Ability to lead, motivate and grow teams of developers in a challenging, dynamic and global environment
• Agile. Prior experience managing teams using agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
• Communication. Excellent oral and written communication skills in English

Desired Skills/Experience

• Distributed systems. Expertise in designing, implementing and operated distributed systems architectures and concepts, including several of the following:
  • High-performance, high-availability (99.999%) and self-recoverable systems
  • Control, orchestration and automation platforms leveraging containers or VMs
  • Storage solutions, in particular MySQL (e.g., Cassandra, MongoDB, Hadoop, Redis, Zookeeper)
  • Consensus and consistency frameworks (e.g., Paxos, Raft, eventual consistency)
  • Data-processing systems (e.g., Lambda architecture, Kafka, RabbitMQ, ELK)
  • RPC frameworks (e.g., Protobuf/gRPC, Thrift, Bond)
• Understanding of large-scale infrastructure-as-a-service platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, etc.)
• Operating systems. Development and software management on Linux systems (e.g., CentOS, RHEL)
• Software design. Demonstrated expertise in applying systems patterns (e.g., Client-server, N-tier, Master/Slave, MVC) and API constructions (e.g., Swagger, OpenAPI)
• Full-software ownership from idea to running in production: design, code, writing unittests, performing integration tests, deploying to production, supporting the system in the production environments

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