Engineering Manager, AI-Driven Backend Systems

Salesforce; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking an engineering manager in the Seattle area to lead a high-impact team building authentication infrastructure and scalable datastore services across Java, NoSQL, and DevOps practices. You will partner with product management and architecture to set product and operational strategies, drive Agile delivery, and mentor engineers to grow in an AI-augmented development environment.

This role emphasizes architectural integrity, security best practices, and hands-on expertise with

Qualifications

• Direct people management experience leading software teams.
• Strong Java, web services, and system architecture skills.
• Experience with Linux/Unix, bash, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on proficiency with AI development tools and evaluating AI outputs.
• Experience evaluating prompts and orchestrating multi-agent workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead, empower, and develop a team of software engineers delivering APIs, logging, monitoring, performance tuning, and highly available datastore services.
• Develop short- and long-term product and operational strategies for Cloud Atlas in partnership with product management and architecture teams.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables using Agile methodologies, such as Scrum and Kanban.
• Drive software quality, performance, security, and resilience through code reviews, continuous integration, and incident response.
• Develop each engineer's ability to work effectively in an AI-augmented environment, moving beyond tracking output to actively coaching growth into higher-level system design and architecture work.
• Own how AI tools are integrated into the team's daily development cycle, including configuration, feedback loops, and the judgment calls about when human review is required to validate output.
• Serve as the guardian of architectural integrity, security best practices, and technical standards as AI increases code volume, coaching engineers to critically audit AI-generated code for logic flaws, vulnerabilities, and performance issues.

Skills

People management

Java

REST/ RPC

Distributed systems

AI development tools

DevOps practices

Tools

NoSQL databases

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Salesforce is seeking an engineering manager in the Seattle area to lead a high-impact team building authentication infrastructure and scalable datastore services across Java, NoSQL, and DevOps practices. You will partner with product management and architecture to set product and operational strategies, drive Agile delivery, and mentor engineers to grow in an AI-augmented development environment.

This role emphasizes architectural integrity, security best practices, and hands-on expertise with