Lead Software Engineer – Platform Services

🕒 May 16

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

💵 $172.5k - $260.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Salesforce

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1999

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

SaaS • B2B • Artificial Intelligence

Salesforce is a leading cloud-based software company that provides a comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) platform. The platform connects all company data and teams on an integrated, AI-driven system to improve sales, customer service, and marketing efforts. Salesforce offers scalable solutions for businesses of all sizes, including small and medium enterprises, and provides industry-specific solutions to modernize operations, save time, and reduce costs. Salesforce also offers educational resources through Trailhead and a wide selection of apps on AppExchange to extend its CRM capabilities.

📋 Description

• Lead the architecture and design of scalable, secure, and resilient platform services • Drive technical strategy and influence architectural decisions across multiple engineering teams • Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to shape technical roadmaps aligned with business goals • Design and deliver high-scale distributed systems and APIs supporting Salesforce’s global digital experiences • Champion engineering excellence through best practices in system design, testing, observability, scalability, and operational maturity • Drive innovation in Agile development, DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native engineering practices • Evaluate and adopt modern technologies and AI-assisted engineering workflows that improve developer productivity and software quality • Mentor and coach engineers while fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement • Help evolve platform capabilities that enable dynamic and personalized customer experiences globally

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software development experience in designing, building, scaling, and maintaining large-scale, highly performant, and resilient production services. • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related technical subject area or equivalent combination of education and experience. • Experience in microservices architecture, domain driven design, and RESTful and GraphQL API's. • Experience building high-scale microservices on AWS (preferred), GCP, or other public cloud substrates. • Experience with AWS components like API Gateway, Lambdas, SNS, SQS, ElastiCache, AppSync etc and NoSQL databases like DynamoDB, Graph databases (Neo4j, Neptune, etc), and Data streams (Kafka, Kinesis, etc) • Experience developing back-end software using JavaScript or TypeScript and runtimes like Node.js (preferred) • Experience with web security, including JWT lifecycle management, CORS, CSP, and XSS prevention. • AI fluency and Proven experience using AI coding assistants (Cursor, Windsurf , Codex etc) to accelerate the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) • Experience in test-driven development and testing frameworks like Jest, Playwright, etc. • Experience in Service orchestration using tools like Terraform (preferred). • Experience in Consumer/B2C identity package implementations such as Okta /Auth0 and Identity protocols like OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect etc (preferred). • Strong verbal and written communication skills.

🏖️ Benefits

• time off programs • medical • dental • vision • mental health support • paid parental leave • life and disability insurance • 401(k) • employee stock purchasing program