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Salesforce · Virginia - Herndon

# Senior Systems Engineer (Cleared)

Virginia - Herndon Remote Senior individual contributor $172,500 - $260,100 annually Operations 

Listed on Salesforce’s official careers site. Posted October 22, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there.
[Apply on Salesforce’s careers site →](https://salesforce.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Career_Site/job/Virginia---Herndon/Senior-Systems-Engineer--Cleared-_JR361210)

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## 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 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.

### The Experience Location

This is an on-site role based in Herndon, Virginia 5 days per week. It is not a remote position. You will join a team of highly motivated software, systems, and security engineers working on infrastructure at scale in support of United States National Security customers. You will be part of the team that solves infrastructure deployment challenges with software, delivers high-velocity and high-quality infrastructure in specialized cloud environments, and ships solutions.

You will work alongside a highly innovative team of developers, open-source committers, and architects across Salesforce. What You'll Actually Be Doing You take ownership of your areas with autonomy and proactively drive progress forward. You distill environmental constraints into practical guardrails that give service owners rapid, self-service feedback about the efficacy and security of their service. You solve infrastructure problems with code and build compute capacity in a fast-paced environment.

You transform manual, people-heavy processes into automated governance solutions. You advance the governance of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines with partner teams, and you incorporate their feedback to improve efficiency while maintaining service-owner feature velocity, patching, and maintenance. You strengthen your influence and collaboration skills by partnering with infrastructure teams across Salesforce.

You evaluate new technologies to solve problems as needed. You play a forward-thinking role in the design of test and deploy services. You're Our Person If... You hold an active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph. You have 4+ years of Linux engineering experience. You have 3+ years maintaining, building, or patching highly sensitive customer data and environments. You have 3+ years deploying with a Continuous Integration (CI) orchestration service such as Jenkins or Spinnaker.

You have 3+ years working within and building on Amazon Web Services (AWS). You have 2+ years of experience with a scripting or programming language such as Shell, Perl, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, or Go. You have 2+ years deploying distributed applications with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), or similar). Even Better If... You hold a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Computer Science or have equivalent work experience.

You have experience developing security and compliance into pipelines. You have experience with monitoring tools such as Nagios, Graphite, Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus, or Zabbix. This candidate must be a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized) who does not hold dual citizenship and agrees to complete a U.S. federal government Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) for a Moderate Public Trust position.This position requires a USA TS/SCI with Polygraph security access level.

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 — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

Accommodations If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form. Please note that Salesforce uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help our recruiters assess and evaluate candidates’ resumes and qualifications throughout the recruiting process. Humans will always make any candidate selection and hiring decisions. Please see our Candidate Privacy Statement for more information about how we use your personal data and your rights, including with regard to use of AI tools and opt out options.

Posting Statement Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination.

### Know your rights

workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey.

It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education. In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: [https://www.salesforcebenefits.com](https://www.salesforcebenefits.com).

At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $172,500 - $260,100 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.

## At a glance
- Posted by the employer: Oct 22, 2026
- First seen by OpenNash: Oct 25, 2026
- Last checked: Nov 8, 2026
- Listed for: 17 days
- Location: Virginia - Herndon
- Work arrangement: Remote
- Pay: $172,500 - $260,100 annually[Apply on Salesforce’s careers site →](https://salesforce.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Career_Site/job/Virginia---Herndon/Senior-Systems-Engineer--Cleared-_JR361210)

## Hiring at Salesforce
- Open jobs: 1,549
- New in the last 7 days: After two weekly collections
- Tracked since: Jul 10, 2026

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