Lead Platform Engineer - AI-Driven Cloud Services

Salesforce; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for Platform Services to shape architecture and guide large-scale, cloud-native distributed systems across global digital experiences. You will collaborate with architecture, product, and platform teams to drive innovation and technical excellence.

You will mentor engineers, steer technical roadmaps, and partner with leadership to align engineering with business goals while leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience in designing, building, scaling, and maintaining large-scale, highly performant, resilient production services.
• Experience in microservices architecture, domain driven design, and RESTful and GraphQL API's.
• Experience building high-scale microservices on AWS (preferred), GCP, or other public cloud substrates.
• Experience with AWS components like API Gateway, Lambdas, SNS, SQS, ElastiCache, AppSync etc and NoSQL databases like DynamoDB, Graph databases (Neo4j, Neptune, etc), and Data streams (Kafka, Kinesis, etc)
• Experience developing back-end software using JavaScript or TypeScript and runtimes like Node.js (preferred)
• Experience with web security, including JWT lifecycle management, CORS, CSP, and XSS prevention.
• AI fluency and Proven experience using AI coding assistants (Cursor, Windsurf , Codex etc) to accelerate the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)
• Experience in test-driven development and testing framewor

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.
• Champion engineering excellence through best practices in system design, testing, observability, scalability, and operational maturity.
• Drive innovation in Agile development, DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native engineering practices.
• Evaluate and adopt modern technologies and AI-assisted engineering workflows that improve developer productivity and software quality.
• Mentor and coach engineers while fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Help evolve platform capabilities that enable dynamic and personalized customer experiences globally.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

AI-assisted development

Leadership

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

GCP

REST/GraphQL APIs

Node.js

TypeScript/ JavaScript

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for Platform Services to shape architecture and guide large-scale, cloud-native distributed systems across global digital experiences. You will collaborate with architecture, product, and platform teams to drive innovation and technical excellence.

You will mentor engineers, steer technical roadmaps, and partner with leadership to align engineering with business goals while leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery.