Lead Platform Engineer — AI-Driven Cloud Services

100 Salesforce, Inc.

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 173,000 - 260,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

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401(k)

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Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to shape the architecture of scalable Platform Services within the Digital Marketing Technology group. You’ll lead distributed systems design, drive technical roadmaps, and collaborate with product, architecture, and platform teams to deliver cloud-native services at scale.

This hands-on leadership role includes mentoring engineers, championing DevOps and CI/CD, and applying AI-assisted tooling to accelerate delivery.

Qualifications

8+ years of professional software development experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining large-scale services.
Experience in microservices architecture and RESTful/GraphQL APIs.
Experience with AWS (API Gateway, Lambda, etc.) and NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture and design of scalable, secure, and resilient platform services.
Drive technical strategy and influence architectural decisions across multiple engineering teams.
Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to shape technical roadmaps aligned with business goals.
Design and deliver high-scale distributed systems and APIs supporting Salesforce’s global digital experiences.
Mentor and coach engineers while elevating engineering standards across teams.
Drive innovation in DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native engineering practices.