# Staff Software Engineer (Salesforce)

**Company**: Western Governors University
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $161,000.00 - $249,500.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

At Western Governors University (WGU), you're part of a mission-driven organisation that aims to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs. As a Staff Software Engineer (Salesforce), you'll lead the evolution of WGU's Salesforce ecosystem, shaping systems that power student experience, enrollment processes, and operational excellence.

**Job Summary:** The Staff Software Engineer is a position of technical expertise, influence, and leadership in the technology realm. The position will be required to apply their expert knowledge to ensure best practices and well-engineered architecture across the department.

**Responsibilities:**

- Split time between hands-on engineering/mentoring within the team and serving as the Salesforce architects' implementation partner , turning architecture decisions for emerging platform capabilities into working solutions

- Set automation, integration, security, and DevOps standards adopted across multiple teams

- Own org-wide security posture and compliance-framework decisions for the platform

- Govern enterprise data model decisions , cross-system data contracts, org split/merge strategy, legacy automation tech-debt strategy

- Lead architectural reviews and platform health assessments , governance-limit forecasting, remediation planning

- Mentor engineers and shape technical direction through influence

- Represent the technical perspective to non-technical stakeholders and drive alignment on platform strategy

**Requirements:**

- 10+ years of software engineering experience with deep Salesforce core engineering expertise , or equivalent depth in another enterprise stack

- Mastery of async Apex / event-driven patterns at a governance level

- Experience designing multi-system integration architecture

- Track record of setting technical standards adopted beyond your own team

- Deep understanding of security architecture and compliance frameworks in a regulated environment

- Demonstrated ability to mentor and shape technical direction through influence

- Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences

**Benefits:**

- Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare

- Health savings account and flexible spending account

- Basic and voluntary life insurance

- Disability coverage

- Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages

- Legal and identity theft coverage

- Retirement savings plan

- Wellbeing program

- Discounted WGU tuition

- Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation

- Flexible paid sick time

- 11 paid holidays

- Up to 12 weeks of parental leave

## Skills

### Required
- Salesforce
- Apex
- SOQL
- async patterns
- integration architecture
- Java
- C#
- .NET
- API-driven systems
- event-driven patterns
- security architecture
- compliance frameworks

### Nice to have
- Application Architect
- System Architect certification
- Data Cloud
- Agentforce
- Marketing Cloud
- Tableau Next
- Copado

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