Lead Network Engineer - Backbone Engineering

requirements that lead to operational excellence The Backbone Engineering team is responsible for network capacity and connectivity strategy for the Salesforce core network, including peering relationships, capacity planning, decision making for new PoP builds. The team is also responsible for the design and maintenance of backbone routing architecture including any automation to make configuration changes easier and more predictable. The Salesforce Backbone is the architecture over which Salesforce customers transit to have access to their Salesforce applications and data. Customer success and trust are beacons for how the team approaches engineering on the Salesforce core network.

Responsibilities

Include: Act as a liaison with the vendor sourcing team Helping to develop and maintain metrics on our capacity vendors Project managing new capacity installs with various teams including sourcing and field engineering Updating the network and associated datastores for capacity additions and decommissions Work with various teams to provide feedback, document, and implement various new network designs Developing in Python, Ansible for network configuration