Senior/Lead Software Engineer, Developer Productivity (AI Tooling)
Salesforce2 months ago
Base Salary
$149k - $286k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical design and delivery of cross-cutting developer-productivity capabilities spanning desktop experiences, backend services, data and analytics platforms, governance workflows, and AI coding-tool integrations.
- Build backend APIs, data models, ingestion flows, dashboards, and user experiences connecting AI tool usage to actionable engineering outcomes.
- Set technical direction, translate ambiguous requirements into designs and delivery plans, and partner with product and engineering stakeholders on priorities and feasibility.
- Establish telemetry, SLIs, SLOs, controlled rollout strategies, playbooks, and long-term ownership practices; lead incident investigation and root-cause analysis.
- Build and ship production-grade software while using AI development tools to improve speed, security, and code quality.
- Design systems in which AI agents integrate into human workflows and establish shared system context, standards, operational knowledge, and decision records.
- Raise technical quality through design and code reviews, coaching, pairing, delegation, and accountability for technical outcomes.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience designing and building production software, including full-stack applications, backend services, developer tools, or internal platforms.
- Strong programming skills across frontend, backend, APIs, data stores, and distributed system boundaries.
- Experience taking ambiguous product or platform requirements through design, implementation, testing, rollout, and production ownership.
- Ability to communicate designs clearly, make technical tradeoffs, influence stakeholders, and lead complex cross-team work.
- Demonstrated AI-first engineering approach using tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, and Cursor.
- Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to create precise prompts and reliable system context for secure, production-ready AI output.
- A related technical degree is required.
- Preferred experience includes developer tools, AI coding-tool integrations, internal platforms, telemetry systems, enterprise desktop applications, React, TypeScript, Go, service APIs, event pipelines, analytics systems, cloud services, Kubernetes-based services, self-service experiences, dashboards, plugin systems, and command-line tools.
Benefits
- Salesforce offers time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
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About Salesforce
Salesforce builds cloud-based customer relationship management software and a broader Customer 360 platform for sales, service, marketing, commerce, and analytics, sold by subscription to businesses and public-sector organizations. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Francisco, it trades on the NYSE under the symbol CRM. Its portfolio includes Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, MuleSoft integration, Tableau analytics, and Slack for collaboration, with extensive developer tools and APIs.