Lead AI-Driven Developer Platform Engineer

Leadout Capital; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Lead Member of Technical Staff to design, build, and own full-stack capabilities across desktop apps, backend services, data pipelines, and developer-facing integrations. You will drive AI-enabled engineering workflows, establish telemetry, and deliver secure, scalable code used by thousands of Salesforce engineers.

The role emphasizes translating ambiguous requirements into concrete designs, setting direction for platform areas, and leading cross-team collaboration with

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience designing and building production software, including full-stack applications, backend services, developer tools, or internal platforms.
• Strong programming skills and experience working across frontend, backend, APIs, data stores, and distributed system boundaries.
• Experience taking ambiguous product or platform requirements from design through implementation, testing, rollout, and production ownership.
• Ability to explain initiatives and designs clearly to engineers, product partners, and engineering leadership; make sound technical tradeoffs; influence stakeholders; and lead complex work across teams.
• A demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering — using AI tools to move faster, build fluency across the stack, and contribute well beyond your core specialty.
• 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.
• A related technical degree is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and delivery of complex, cross-cutting capabilities across internal developer-productivity products, spanning desktop experiences, backend services, data and analytics platforms, governance workflows, and integrations with AI coding tools and engineering systems.
• Build backend APIs, data models, ingestion flows, dashboards, and user experiences that connect AI tool usage to outcomes engineers and leaders can act on.
• Set technical direction for a product or platform area, translating ambiguous requirements into design specifications, test strategies, and incremental delivery plans; partner with product and engineering stakeholders to shape medium-term priorities and validate feasibility.
• Define and raise the operational bar across the systems you lead by establishing telemetry, SLIs and SLOs, controlled rollout strategies, playbooks, and long-term ownership practices; lead incident investigation and root-cause analysis when needed.
• 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 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.
• Establish and curate the shared system context - designs, constraints, standards, operational knowledge, and decision records - that helps both engineers and AI agents operate accurately and reliably.
• Raise the team's technical quality through design and code reviews, coaching, pairing, and clear definitions of done; delegate appropriately while remaining accountable for the overall technical outcome.

Skills

Full-stack development

Backend services

Frontend development

APIs

Data pipelines

Telemetry & observability

AI-first engineering

Prompt engineering

Education

Related technical degree

Tools

React

TypeScript

Go

Kubernetes

APIs

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Lead Member of Technical Staff to design, build, and own full-stack capabilities across desktop apps, backend services, data pipelines, and developer-facing integrations. You will drive AI-enabled engineering workflows, establish telemetry, and deliver secure, scalable code used by thousands of Salesforce engineers.

The role emphasizes translating ambiguous requirements into concrete designs, setting direction for platform areas, and leading cross-team collaboration with