Salesloft

Principal Software Engineer, AI

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2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+

Base Salary

$165k - $185k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Embed with feature teams to understand context-layer data needs and use those insights to drive the platform roadmap.
  • Build the technical vision and roadmap for knowledge graph, RAG, retrieval, and search data products.
  • Design and own multi-tenant access control and RBAC for agent identity and fine-grained permissions.
  • Define scalable, ergonomic APIs, SDKs, and developer interfaces.
  • Partner with data engineering on platform dependencies and infrastructure reliability.
  • Lead architecture discussions, design reviews, code reviews, and technical standards.
  • Address data governance, lineage, security, and auditability requirements.
  • Contribute to hiring, documentation, onboarding, and platform adoption.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on data-layer or search/retrieval infrastructure.
  • Production experience designing and building knowledge graphs and/or large-scale retrieval and search systems.
  • Deep expertise in RAG architectures, vector databases, embedding-based retrieval, evaluation, quality tuning, and relevance optimization.
  • Strong understanding of access control and RBAC in multi-tenant, data-rich environments.
  • Experience designing developer-facing APIs and SDKs that are intuitive and widely adopted.
  • Familiarity with data governance, lineage, and auditability requirements in enterprise or regulated contexts.
  • Ability to lead technical direction across multiple teams and deliver complex, multi-stakeholder projects.
  • Experience with Python and/or Java and comfort across data engineering, backend systems, and platform infrastructure.
  • Excellent communication skills across engineering, product, data, and leadership.

Benefits

  • Remote role in the US.
  • The total compensation package may include performance bonus, benefits, and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans.
  • Inclusive and supportive workplace committed to equal opportunity and culture add.
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