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

Salesforce; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 117,200 - 313,700; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

wellbeing reimbursement

generous parental leave

adoption assistance

Job summary

Salesforce is hiring a Backend Software Engineer in Seattle, Washington. Candidates will work with top engineers to develop high-quality software that integrates AI into workflows, ensuring product stability and scalability.

Ideal applicants possess a related technical degree and over 3 years of experience in software development, particularly in object-oriented languages like Java and C++. Salesforce offers a hybrid work model and a competitive salary based on experience, ensuring flexibility and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• 3+ years backend software development experience.
• Deep knowledge of object-oriented programming languages.
• Demonstrated AI-first approach to engineering.

Responsibilities

• Backend application development for various cloud services.
• Design, implement, and tune robust APIs.
• Working with large data sets in the cloud.

Skills

object-oriented programming

Java

C++

Agile development methodology

AI tools

API frameworks

Education

related technical degree

Tools

Spring

gRPC

Job description

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.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

Note: By applying to the Software Backend Development posting, recruiters and hiring managers across the organization hiring for Backend Software Engineers will review your resume. Our goal is for you to apply once and have your resume reviewed by multiple hiring teams. Positions available at all levels: Mid Level, Senior, Lead and Principal.

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Salesforce has opportunities for experienced software developers who want their lines of code to have significant and measurable positive impact for users, the company’s bottom line, and the industry. You will be working with a group of world‑class engineers to build the breakthrough features our customers will love, adopt, and use while keeping our trusted CRM platform stable and scalable.

The software engineer role at Salesforce encompasses architecture, design, implementation, and testing to ensure we build products right and release them with high quality. Equally important is advanced prompt engineering — the ability to write precise, structured prompts and cultivate the system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production‑ready.

We pride ourselves on writing high quality, maintainable code that strengthens the stability of the product and makes our lives easier. 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. We believe that autonomous teams with the freedom to make decisions will empower the individuals, the product, the company, and the customers they serve to thrive.

Your Impact

• 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.
• Contribute to building and maintaining the shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably.
• 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

Required Skills

• 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.
• Participate in the team’s on‑call rotation to address complex problems in real‑time and keep services operational and highly available
• Office‑Flex: work in‑person three days per week; or 10 days per quarter for some engineering teams.

Benefits & Perks

Check out our benefits site which explains our various benefits, including wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more.

Accommodations

If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form.

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In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $117,200 - $313,700 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $141,200 - $344,700 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.