Software Engineering Architect, Salesforce
Industries Cloud
$263.2-401.4k
+ ESPP
World's leading CRM provider
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World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$263.2-401.4k
+ ESPP
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.
Role
Who you are
- A rare blend of deep technical mastery, strategic vision, and exceptional leadership, ready to tackle the most complex challenges at scale
- 15+ (ideally 20+) years of hands-on software development experience with a proven track record of designing, building, and delivering large, complex enterprise-grade projects
- Mastery across multiple programming languages and platforms, with a strong understanding of architectural patterns for highly scalable and resilient systems
- Demonstrated expertise in architecting and implementing distributed systems, backend technologies, and cloud-native solutions (AWS, GCP, Alibaba experience highly valued)
- A passion for innovation, with experience driving research, POCs, and integrating emerging technologies like AI
- Exceptional ability to independently craft and deliver strategic technical reports and performance presentations to executive leadership and external audiences
- Proven success in fostering technical performance architecture that addresses the most complex performance bottlenecks
- Deep experience in setting long-term design strategies that span multiple complex projects
- Strong informal mentorship capabilities, with a passion for guiding and developing engineering talent. You build an environment for clear and open discussion, involving the right people to resolve critical issues
- Comfortable working within short release cycles and the full software development lifecycle, with experience in publicly released, multi-release products
- Proficiency with Agile development methodologies (e.g., Scrum)
- A related technical degree is required
What the job involves
- Join the Industries Cloud team, where innovation meets industry expertise as a Software Engineering Architect
- Our dynamic team of engineers and architects builds cutting-edge, industry-specific features on top of the Salesforce core platform, tailoring powerful features that solve unique business challenges across multiple verticals
- As a Software Architect, you'll have the opportunity to work across different industry teams— bringing your technical vision and full-stack expertise to create scalable, distributed systems that transform how businesses operate
- You'll collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers across locations to architect solutions that combine the power of Salesforce with deep industry domain knowledge
- This is a unique opportunity to make an impact across multiple industries while working with cutting-edge technologies including Java, Lightning, big data systems, and AI-powered development tools
- Our team values innovation, technical excellence, and the collaborative spirit needed to deliver enterprise-grade solutions that matter
- Architecting the Core: Drive the end-to-end architecture for mission-critical products and services, ensuring enterprise-grade scalability, maintainability, and reliability. You'll craft overarching architectural principles, frameworks, and standards
- Hands-On Innovation: Maintain your coding edge by dedicating approximately 20% of your time to hands-on development, proof-of-concepts (POCs), and validating new architectural patterns
- Strategic Partner: Partner directly with SVPs, EVPs, and business leaders to translate complex challenges into actionable technical roadmaps. You'll drive strategic technology initiatives, providing critical input into long-range product requirements and best practices
- Distributed Systems & Cloud Mastery: Leverage your deep expertise in distributed systems, backend technologies, and diverse cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Alibaba) to architect robust and high-performing solutions
- Pioneering AI Integration: Spearhead the integration of cutting-edge AI components into our platforms, shaping the future of intelligent CRM
- Leadership & Mentorship: Cultivate a culture of engineering excellence by actively mentoring and guiding a significant number of engineers (20-100+), fostering their technical development and understanding of complex architectures
- Cross-Functional Catalyst: Act as a critical liaison, working consultatively across a large engineering organization to improve communication, foster teamwork, and drive technical alignment
- Continuous Improvement: Champion continuous improvement in platform reliability and serviceability, driving research and prototyping of innovative technologies
- Operational Excellence: Participate in the team’s on-call rotation, applying your deep expertise to resolve complex real-time challenges and ensure highly available services
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.
Steph
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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