Overview
This role sits at the heart of the Office of the CEO organization, inside the AI Trust and Governance engineering team — the group making sure Salesforce's AI is powerful and trustworthy. As a Senior/Lead Software Engineer, you'll bring hands-on technical leadership across architecture, platform innovation, and large-scale distributed systems.
You'll team up with engineering, product, architecture, and platform partners to design and build scalable, cloud-native services that power Salesforce's AI Trust and Governance mission. As a senior/lead IC, you'll set the technical direction, mentor engineers, tackle thorny technical challenges, and raise the bar for the whole team.
Responsibilities
- •Lead the design and development of cutting-edge AI system functionality
- •Design new architecture to solve complex scalability problems
- •Build comprehensive functional and system-level tests for your area
- •Take features end-to-end and drive the design and architecture decisions that shape them
- •Investigate issues through debugging and root cause analysis to diagnose defects
- •Take an active role in the release and deployment process
- •Guide MTS/AMTS engineers through mentorship and code/design reviews, elevating the team's overall craft
- •Leverage AI-driven tools, automation, and intelligent workflows to supercharge developer productivity and system capabilities
- •Adapt quickly to shifting requirements, priorities, and strategies in a fast-moving environment
- •Partner with teams such as Data Cloud and AI Platform
Qualifications
- •BS or higher degree in Computer Science
- •4+ years industry experience in system or database internals programming
- •4+ years technical leadership in architecture and design of enterprise server platform or systems
- •Deep expertise with distributed systems and consensus algorithms
- •Experience with highly concurrent multi-threaded/multi-process data structures and design
- •Strong Java or C programming skills
- •Strong problem-solving skills and a results-oriented attitude
- •Ability to learn fast and deliver high quality code in a fast-paced, dynamic agile team environment
Nice to Have
- •Strong oral and written communication skills with proven cross-team collaboration experience
- •Comfortable juggling multiple projects, hitting deadlines, and rolling with shifting priorities
- •Ability to turn strategic goals into concrete technical plans and architecture
- •Experience with the Salesforce platform (Apex, LWC, Data Cloud)
- •Hands-on experience with Salesforce Agentforce or Agent Builder
- •Skilled at critically evaluating code, human- or AI-generated, for correctness, quality, security, and performance
Compensation
The typical base salary range for this position is $148,500 - $260,100 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range is $178,900 - $285,800 annually. The range represents base salary only and does not include company bonus, equity, or benefits.