# Lead Software Engineer – Platform Services

**Company**: Salesforce
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $172,500 - $260,100 annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Salesforce, we're inspiring the future of business with AI + Data + CRM. Our Digital Marketing Technology organization is transforming how prospects, customers, and Trailblazers engage with Salesforce online. We're building a unified digital platform that powers personalized, intelligent, and scalable experiences across Salesforce.com and the broader Trailblazer ecosystem.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will provide hands-on technical leadership across architecture, platform innovation, and large-scale distributed systems. You'll partner closely with engineering, product, architecture, and platform teams to design and build scalable cloud-native services that power Salesforce's global digital ecosystem.

**Responsibilities**

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- microservices architecture
- domain driven design
- RESTful API
- GraphQL API
- cloud-native engineering
- Agile development
- DevOps
- CI/CD
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- AWS
- NoSQL databases
- web security
- AI-assisted engineering

### Nice to have
- Terraform
- Okta
- Auth0
- OAuth 2.0
- OpenID Connect

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