Principal Software Engineer, Salesforce
Data Platform
$230.8-334.6k
World's leading CRM provider
Open for applications
World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$230.8-334.6k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years focused on backend distributed systems or data infrastructure at scale
- Deep Engineering Roots: You are an expert coder (Python, Java, or Go) who grew up building software. You are comfortable debugging a distributed trace, optimizing a JVM heap, or rewriting a slow SQL query plan
- Architectural Expertise: Proven track record of designing large-scale data platforms. You understand the CAP theorem, eventual consistency, and the trade-offs between batch and streaming architectures
- Core Stack Mastery: Hands-on expert-level knowledge of Snowflake (internals/clustering), dbt (macro design/Jinja), Airflow (scheduler internals), and Tableau
- Graph Database Expertise: Deep understanding of Graph theory and implementation. You know how to model data in Neo4j (Cypher) to avoid super-node problems and optimize traversal performance
- Cloud Native Native: Mastery of AWS/GCP services (IAM, VPC, PrivateLink, S3/GCS) and container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS)
- AI/LLM Integration: Experience implementing RAG architectures, vector databases, or integrating LLMs into data pipelines
- Influence & Communication: Ability to write clear, persuasive Request for Comments (RFCs) and architectural decision records (ADRs) that drive consensus among other architects and engineering leadership
What the job involves
- The Principal Member of Technical Staff for the Enterprise Data Platform is the primary technical architect responsible for modernizing, integrating, and optimizing Salesforce's foundational data ecosystem. You will serve as the technical "north star" for the engineering teams, bridging the world of modern distributed analytics with the cutting edge of Semantic AI
- In this high-impact individual contributor role, you will architect the backbone of the company using technologies such as Snowflake, dbt, Informatica, and Airflow—while simultaneously designing and scaling our advanced Knowledge Graph Platform (Neo4j & TopQuadrant)
- Your mission is to design the "paved path" where structured data flows effortlessly into high-value knowledge graphs to power BI, Advanced Analytics, and Generative AI
- You will not just oversee the architecture; you will write the proof-of-concepts, define the code standards, and solve the most complex scalability challenges
- Architect the Roadmap: Define the long-term technical architecture for the Enterprise Data Platform. Translate business strategy into technical specifications, ensuring our stack allows for "Data Mesh" scalability and domain-oriented ownership
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Evangelism: personally architect and review the Terraform/Helm configurations that define our infrastructure. Ensure that from Snowflake RBAC to Neo4j clusters, our platform is immutable, version-controlled, and reproducible
- Performance Engineering: Deep dive into the hardest performance bottlenecks. Optimize query planners, data serialization formats (Parquet/Iceberg), and distributed compute costs across Snowflake and Spark
- AI Enablement: Design the integration patterns for AI-assisted tooling (Cursor, MCP, Copilot) within the developer workflow to step-change developer velocity
- Graph RAG Architecture: Lead the technical design of "Graph RAG" (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), creating the patterns that allow LLM agents to query structured Snowflake data via the Neo4j Knowledge Graph
- Semantic Layer Design: Design the integration between the physical data layer (Snowflake) and the semantic governance layer (TopQuadrant/TopBraid EDG), ensuring ontologies are mechanically enforced rather than theoretically defined
- Polyglot Persistence: define the specific architectural patterns for when data should reside in a Relational Store (Snowflake) versus a Graph Store (Neo4j), and design the high-velocity pipelines (Kafka/Airflow) that keep them in sync
- Code Quality & DevOps: Set the standard for code quality. You will be expected to code, review Pull Requests, and enforce strict CI/CD pipelines (unit testing data, schema validation)
- Resiliency Architecture: Design self-healing systems. Architect the monitoring and alerting frameworks (SRE) that ensure 99.9% availability for critical pipelines
- Mentorship without Authority: Act as a technical mentor to Senior and Lead engineers across multiple squads. Elevate the technical bar of the organization through design reviews, RFCs, and pair programming sessions
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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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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