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