Senior/Lead Search Engineer

About Salesforce

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We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI + Data + CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

What You Will Be Doing

Come help us shape the future of Commerce Search!

As part of one of the fastest growing clouds at Salesforce, the Commerce Agentic and Search teams have an exciting long-term roadmap dedicated to building scalable services that will power product and content discovery amongst the world's most trusted brands. Since product and content discovery is key for commerce shoppers, we play a critical role in our customers’ success.

We are a collaborative team that strives for quality in product, software engineering best practices, and focus on impact. We are looking for a Senior/Lead/Principal Software Engineer to join a new team in helping building out and scale our Agentic and Search platform.

Responsibilities/Duties

• Lead feature development throughout the software lifecycle: gather requirements, design, build, test, and deploy
• Help scale our search services which need to support low latency and high throughput
• Have experience with reliably delivering high-quality, distributed, testable, and scalable software
• Mentor others in development technologies, tools, and processes
• Present your own designs to internal/external groups and review designs of others
• Develop test strategies, design automation frameworks, write unit/functional tests to drive up code coverage and automation metrics
• Service ownership operate the service, improve supportability, and help resolve customer issues
• Improve developer productivity through tooling and software engineering best practices
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to address sophisticated problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field—or equivalent practical experience.
• A good understanding of object-oriented programming and experience in at least one object-oriented programming language, e.g. Java, C++.
• At least 5 years of object oriented programming experience
• Experience using Git / GitHub
• Validated understanding of web technologies, such as JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, XML, JavaScript, JSON, and/or Ajax
• Shown understanding of Database technologies such as SQL, PL/SQL and relational database schema design
• Experience in automated testing including unit and functional testing using Java, JUnit, JSUnit, Selenium
• Previous experience with SaaS development
• Team player, get-it-done attitude and quick learner
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Experience with Search technologies like Lucene, Elasticsearch, Solr is a huge plus!
• Experience working on building Search Platforms/features is a huge plus!

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $184,000 to $253,000.

For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $200,800 to $276,100.

For Massachusetts based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $184,000 to $253,000.