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From the employer's careers site First seen 27 Oct 2026

Senior/Lead Software Engineer

Salesforce senior full-time

Salary

$172,500 - $260,100 annually

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Description

We are seeking a Senior/Lead Software Engineer to join our AI Trust and Governance engineering team at Salesforce. As a senior/lead IC, you will bring hands-on technical leadership across architecture, platform innovation, and large-scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and build scalable, cloud-native services that power Salesforce's AI Trust and Governance mission
  • Set the technical direction, mentor engineers, tackle thorny technical challenges, and raise the bar for the whole team
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, architecture, and platform partners to drive solutions and improvements
  • Investigate issues through debugging and root cause analysis to diagnose defects
  • Guide MTS/AMTS engineers through mentorship and code/design reviews, elevating the team's overall craft

Requirements:

  • BS or higher degree in Computer Science
  • 4+ years industry experience in system or database internals programming
  • 4+ years technical leadership in architecture and design of enterprise server platform or systems
  • Deep expertise with distributed systems and consensus algorithms
  • Experience with highly concurrent multi-threaded/multi-process data structures and design
  • Strong Java or C programming skills

Nice to Have:

  • Strong oral and written communication skills, with proven cross-team collaboration experience
  • Comfortable juggling multiple projects, hitting deadlines, and rolling with shifting priorities
  • Experience with the Salesforce platform (Apex, LWC, Data Cloud), or the hustle to learn it fast
  • Hands-on experience with Salesforce Agentforce or Agent Builder

Benefits:

  • Time off programs
  • Medical, dental, vision
  • Mental health support
  • Paid parental leave
  • Life and disability insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Employee stock purchasing program

Salary Range: $172,500 - $260,100 annually (typical base salary range)

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Salesforce platform
  • Apex
  • LWC
  • Data Cloud
  • Agentforce
  • Agent Builder
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