Lead Software Engineer - Platform Services
Salesforce8 days ago
Base Salary
$173k - $286k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and design of scalable, secure, and resilient platform services.
- Drive technical strategy and architectural decisions across multiple engineering teams.
- Design and deliver high-scale distributed systems and RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
- Partner with product, engineering, architecture, and platform teams on technical roadmaps.
- Advance testing, observability, scalability, operational maturity, DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native engineering practices.
- Evaluate modern technologies and AI-assisted workflows to improve developer productivity and software quality.
- Mentor and coach engineers while fostering ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Evolve platform capabilities supporting dynamic and personalized global customer experiences.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software development experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining large-scale production services.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related technical subject, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience with microservices architecture, domain-driven design, and RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
- Experience building high-scale microservices on AWS, GCP, or other public cloud platforms.
- Experience with AWS API Gateway, Lambda, SNS, SQS, ElastiCache, AppSync, DynamoDB, Neo4j, Neptune, Kafka, and Kinesis.
- Backend development experience with JavaScript or TypeScript and runtimes such as Node.js.
- Experience with web security, JWT lifecycle management, CORS, CSP, and XSS prevention.
- Experience using AI coding assistants such as Cursor, Windsurf, or Codex.
- Experience with test-driven development and testing frameworks such as Jest and Playwright.
- Experience with service orchestration tools such as Terraform.
- Preferred experience implementing consumer or B2C identity packages such as Okta or Auth0 and identity protocols including OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction across organizations.
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.
- The role may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Salesforce provides reasonable accommodation support during the application and recruiting process.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBApache KafkaAWSGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLJavaScriptJestNeo4jNode.jsTerraformTypeScript
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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.