Lead Software Engineer, Salesforce
Platform Services
$172.5-285.8k
Salary is dependent on location
World's leading CRM provider
Be an early applicant
World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$172.5-285.8k
Salary is dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.
Role
Who you are
- Strong technical leader with deep experience building and scaling distributed systems
- Hands-on engineer passionate about solving complex platform and architecture challenges
- Experience working within modern digital, marketing technology, or customer identity ecosystems
- Strong collaborator who can influence technical direction across organizations
- Engineer who effectively leverages AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and accelerate software delivery
- Passion for building scalable, reliable, and secure customer-facing systems
- 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
What the job involves
- This role sits within the Platform Services team in Salesforce’s Digital Marketing Technology organization. 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
- This is a highly collaborative individual contributor role focused on solving complex technical challenges while mentoring engineers and elevating engineering standards across teams
- 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
Our take
Salesforce is a global cloud computing company, best known for its on-demand, comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The company was launched to mitigate the doubts that business owners felt regarding third party companies holding their data.
By providing essential, customer-oriented CRM software, Salesforce places itself at the heart of digitised businesses. Furthermore, by building out its AI capabilities, the company removes the complexity of AI, enabling any business to deliver smarter, personalised and more predictive customer experiences.
Due to the continued innovation offered by the company, over 150,000 companies, both big and small, are growing their business with Salesforce today. Despite a tumultuous 2023 filled with activist investors, a boardroom shake-up and the unprecedented step-down of Co-CEO Bret Taylor, Salesforce continues to close several acquisition deals and managed to drive up its stock value by 96% from the end of 2022 to 2023.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2001
$46.9m
SERIES D
Nov 1999
$13.2m
SERIES C
Total funding: $64.5m
Company benefits
- With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Marc Benioff
(Chair & CEO)Previously Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation for 13 years.
Parker Harris
(CTO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer for over six years. Harris also co-founded Left Coast Software.
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