Software Engineering Lead/Principal - AI Tooling & Automation
InformaticaBase Salary
$173k - $345k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive quality strategy, engineering standards, quality gates, and engineering excellence across the software lifecycle.
- Design resilient architectures addressing functional, performance, scalability, reliability, and fault-tolerance challenges.
- Lead cross-functional technical triage, identify systemic flaws, and drive durable fixes across the Agentic Development Lifecycle.
- Architect and build scalable UI, REST/gRPC API, microservices, and end-to-end quality engineering frameworks.
- Integrate automated regression, monitoring, alerting, and sanity testing into CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows.
- Build production-like test environments using Docker, Kubernetes, and synthetic test-data generation.
- Define and execute enterprise-scale performance strategies using customer workload models, JMeter, k6, and custom performance harnesses.
- Analyze distributed-system CPU, memory, database, network, and execution-profiling metrics to identify bottlenecks.
- Use AI and intelligent automation to advance proactive quality and performance engineering.
- Support complex customer escalations through technical debugging and root-cause analysis.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in software development, test automation framework architecture, and performance engineering in enterprise SaaS or distributed systems.
- Strong coding skills in at least one of Java, Python, or TypeScript/Node.js.
- Hands-on experience with Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, RestAssured, Postman, or comparable UI and API testing frameworks.
- Deep expertise with k6, JMeter, or Locust and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, or Splunk.
- Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure; Docker; Kubernetes; and CI/CD tools.
- BS or MS in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred experience with Apex, Lightning Web Components, Data Cloud, or Agentforce ecosystem testing.
- Preferred experience with AI coding and testing assistants such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor, or with testing LLM/RAG pipelines.
- Strong understanding of SQL query tuning, indexing strategies, and relational or NoSQL database performance.
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and resolve complex customer escalations.
Benefits
- Benefits include time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- Salesforce provides reasonable accommodations during the application and recruiting process.
- The posting states that Salesforce uses AI tools to assist with resume and qualification assessment, while humans make candidate selection and hiring decisions.
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About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com