Software Engineering, LMTS (Backend + Infra)

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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.

Role Description

Salesforce has immediate opportunities for Lead Software Engineers who want their lines of code to have significant and measurable positive impact for users. We pride ourselves on writing high-quality, maintainable code that strengthens the stability of the product and makes our lives easier.

We embrace the hybrid model and celebrate the individual strengths of each team member while encouraging everyone on the team to grow into the best version of themselves.

As a Lead Software Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

Envision and build new components/frameworks in distributed filesystems in an ever-growing and evolving market technology to provide scale and efficiency

Design and develop high-quality, production-ready code used by millions of users of our cloud platform

Build efficient components/algorithms on a microservice multi-tenant SaaS cloud distributed filesystem environment

Code review, mentor junior engineers, and provide technical guidance to the team

Job Duties

Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialized utility programs

Update software or enhance existing software capabilities

Lead the team with the product owner role in collecting requirements, defining the roadmap, driving partners, and unblocking the team in execution

Contribute to the success of the scrum team through code reviews, deployment process automation, documentation, refinement, planning, and retros

Lead, collaborate, communicate, and mentor others on the team and in the company

Work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver a roadmap that meets shared business goals

Resolve complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system scalability, robustness, and availability

Troubleshoot issues with services the team develops and owns

Participate in the team's on-call rotation to keep services operational and highly available

Create, maintain, and share technical documentation used by engineers and other team members

Telecommuting is an option; some travel to Salesforce offices may be required

Required Skills

10+ years of software development experience with mastery in systems design and programming languages/platforms

Deep knowledge of designing distributed filesystems in both on-prem & cloud

Deep knowledge of object-oriented programming and scripting languages: Java, Python; strong SQL skills and experience with relational and non-relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, Trino)

Experience developing SaaS products over public cloud infrastructure — AWS / Azure / GCP

Proven experience designing and developing distributed systems at scale — proficiency in queues, locks, scheduling, event-driven architecture, and workload distribution

Strong understanding of software development best practices with demonstrated leadership skills

Preferred Skills

Design patterns & experience with Big Data / ML and S3

Hands-on experience with streaming technologies like Kafka

Experience with Elasticsearch

Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker

Experience working in a high-paced, rapidly growing multinational organization

Leadership Expectations

Demonstrate high proficiency in engineering best practices — scalability, security, fault tolerance, concurrency, and database modeling — to consistently ensure high-quality software delivery

Lead by example, guiding the team in adopting these standards while effectively navigating risks and making strategic technical trade-offs

Leverage deep domain expertise to anchor the team and personally drive the most complex and challenging deliverables

Maintain a holistic, systems-level vision of how the team's work integrates into the broader organizational architecture

Drive comprehensive technical design specifications and robust test plans to guide successful team execution

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.

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