Lead Software Engineer - Platform Services

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

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Applications will be accepted until 11/21/2025.

Salesforce is transforming the way prospects, customers, and Trailblazers interact with the company on the web. We are unifying the digital experience of online visitors across corporate brand websites and our Trailblazer ecosystem on a shared digital platform. The result will be dynamic and personalized based on a visitor's role, industry, and location. It will also be a showcase of Salesforce products.

Role Scope

Lead Engineer role is part of the Platform Services team within Salesforce’s Digital Marketing Technology group, responsible for the innovation of our Salesforce digital experiences globally, leveraging best-in-class technology and systems. This role encompasses defining and overseeing architecture, design, implementation, and testing strategies, ensuring technical excellence, long-term scalability, and high-quality product delivery across the digital experience. You will be working with a group of world-class engineers to build the breakthrough features our customers will love and adopt while keeping our trusted platform stable and scalable.

The successful candidate will have:

• Deep and proven experience in the marketing technologies domain, with a strong focus on experimentation domain or B2C Identity Domain and a track record of delivering transformative solutions across complex platform ecosystems
• Identity Domain : Experience in Consumer/B2C identity package implementations, preferably Okta /Auth0 and Identity protocols like OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect etc.
• Experimentation Domain: Experience in building solutions for experimentation for A/B testing, Multi-variate testing etc.
• Expertise in building AI-based computing architectures and scalable stacks.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish the technical vision and unlock best-in-class capabilities in the marketing technology ecosystem
• Serve as the technical leader, providing solution guidance, influencing technical decisions across multiple teams and the broader organization, while ensuring optimal business outcomes.
• Proactively partner with Product and Engineering leadership to define, shape, and champion the technical aspects of product roadmaps to align with business goals and architectural vision.
• Drive the design and architecture of complex, high-impact technical solutions that translate business requirements into robust, scalable, reliable, and secure systems, while leveraging of Salesforce product suite.
• Innovate and invent the future of Agile and DevOps, drive continuous improvement with a focus on process, controls, scalability, and maturity.
• Continuously evaluate, assess, and advocate for the adoption of cutting-edge tools and technologies that drive significant improvements in engineering efficiency, productivity, and future-proofing.
• Elevate the overall technical strength of the engineering organization by actively coaching, mentoring, and setting a high bar for technical excellence, architecture, and engineering best practices.
• Cultivate and thrive in a culture of ownership, high-quality delivery, and continuous innovation.

Qualifications

• 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 API's.
• Experience building high-scale microservices on AWS (preferred), GCP, or other public cloud substrates.
• Experience in building scalable applications based on micro-service architecture in public cloud infrastructure (AWS components like API Gateway, Lambdas, SNS, SQS, ElastiCache, AppSync etc)
• Experience with NoSQL databases - DynamoDB, Graph databases (Neo4j, Neptune, etc), Web Services (REST, GraphQL) & Data streams (Kafka, Kinesis, etc)
• Experience developing back-end software, preferably including JavaScript or TypeScript and runtimes like Node.js
• Experience in designing and managing complex, large-scale data pipelines, including data modeling and schema design, for efficient data processing and transformation. Experience with scripting languages such as Python for data manipulation and automation. Experience in designing, building, and maintaining Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) pipelines using AWS Glue or Apache Spark