# Lead Backend Software Engineer

**Company**: Salesforce
**Location**: Tel Aviv
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

### Lead Backend Software Engineer

Join Salesforce, the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. As a Lead Backend Software Engineer, you will be working with a group of world-class engineers to build breakthrough features that our customers will love, adopt, and use while keeping our trusted CRM platform stable and scalable.

#### What You'll Actually Be Doing

- Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow by pushing the boundaries of AI development tools to deliver secure, optimized, and high-quality code.

- Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale.

- Contribute to building and maintaining the shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably.

- Critically evaluate code (human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance.

- Build new and exciting components in an ever-growing and evolving market technology to provide scale and efficiency.

- Develop high-quality, production-ready code that can be used by millions of users of our cloud platform.

- Make design decisions on the basis of performance, scalability, and future expansion.

- Work in a Hybrid Engineering model and contribute to all phases of SDLC including design, implementation, code reviews, automation, and testing of the features.

- Build efficient components/algorithms on a microservice multi-tenant SaaS cloud environment.

- Code review, mentoring junior engineers, and providing technical guidance to the team (depending on the seniority level).

#### You're Our Person If...

- 8+ years of development experience as a software engineer.

- Deep knowledge of object-oriented programming and other scripting languages: Java, Python, Scala C#, Go, Node.JS and C++.

- Strong SQL skills and experience with relational and non-relational databases e.g. (Postgres/Trino/redshift/Mongo).

- Experience with developing SAAS products over public cloud infrastructure - AWS/Azure/GCP.

- Proven experience designing and developing distributed systems at scale.

- Proficiency in queues, locks, scheduling, event-driven architecture, and workload distribution, along with a deep understanding of relational database and non-relational databases.

- A demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering , using AI to move faster, build fluency across the stack, and contribute well beyond your core specialty.

- Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, etc.) in development workflows.

- Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to write precise, structured prompts and cultivate the system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production-ready.

- A deeper understanding of software development best practices and demonstrate leadership skills.

- Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.).

#### Even Better If...

- Technical expertise in Generative AI, particularly with RAG systems and Agentic workflows that use large language models.

- Experience with Big-Data/ML and S3.

- Hands-on experience with Streaming technologies like Kafka.

- Experience with Elastic Search.

- Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker.

- Experience working in a high-paced and rapidly growing multinational organization.

#### Benefits & Perks:

Check out our benefits site which explains our various benefits, including wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more.

Open to Flex (1-3 days/week in the office), or Office-Based (4-5 days/week in the office).

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Python
- Scala
- C#
- Go
- Node.JS
- C++
- SQL
- Postgres
- Trino
- redshift
- Mongo
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Distributed systems
- Queues
- Locks
- Scheduling
- Event-driven architecture
- Workload distribution
- AI tools

### Nice to have
- Generative AI
- RAG systems
- Agentic workflows
- Big-Data/ML
- S3
- Kafka
- Elastic Search
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Docker

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