Backend Software Development Engineer - Mid/Senior/Lead/Principal

About the role

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. The software engineer role at Salesforce encompasses architecture, design, implementation, and testing to ensure we build products right and release them with high quality. We embrace the hybrid model and celebrate the individual strengths of each team member while cultivating everyone on the team to grow into the best version of themselves.

Responsibilities

• Backend application development for Marketing/Commerce/Sales/Big Data/Service/Einstein/MuleSoft/Platform/Industries Clouds/Slack and Heroku
• Design, implement, and tune robust APIs and API framework related features that perform and scale in a multi-tenant environment
• Experience handling large data sets in the cloud (e.g. GCP, AWS, Alibaba and/or Azure platforms)
• Integration with internal/external systems
• Test driven development practices as well as CI/CD tools and its usage
• Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow by pushing the boundaries of AI development tools (Cursor, Windsurf, Claude, OpenAI API) to deliver secure, optimized, and high-quality code
• Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale
• Critically evaluate code (Human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance
• For Big Data roles: Working with Phoenix, HBase, MapReduce, Yarn, Kafka, Spark, Hive, Presto, or equivalent large-scale distributed systems technologies on a modern containerized deployment stack

Requirements

• A related technical degree required
• 3+ years backend software development experience
• Deep knowledge of object oriented programming languages: Java, C++, Go, C#, Ruby, Scala, Python, Node.JS, or JavaScript
• Broad knowledge of web standards relating to APIs such as REST, SOAP, XML, WSDL, HTTP, JSON, etc.
• Experience with Spring, gRPC, REST and the HTTP protocol
• Experience with Agile development methodology
• A demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering. Using AI to move faster, build fluency across the stack, and contribute well beyond your core specialty
• Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, etc.) in development workflows
• Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to write precise, structured prompts and cultivate the system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production-ready

Qualifications

Participate in the team's on-call rotation to address complex problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available

Skills

• Experience with AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, etc.) in development workflows
• Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to write precise, structured prompts and cultivate the system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production-ready

Benefits

See full details at Salesforce Benefits

Pay

$117,200 - $313,700 annually

Schedule

Office-Flex: work in-person three days per week; or 10 days per quarter for some engineering teams.