Lead Platform Engineer – AI-Powered Cloud Services

Salesforce, Inc.; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for Platform Services within its Digital Marketing Technology organization.

You will guide the architecture and evolution of a unified digital platform powering personalized experiences across Salesforce.com and Trailblazer ecosystem. You will partner with engineering, product, and platform teams to design scalable cloud-native services, mentor engineers, and raise engineering standards across globally distributed teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience with microservices, domain-driven design, RESTful/GraphQL APIs
• Experience building high-scale microservices on AWS, GCP, or other clouds
• Experience with security (JWT, CORS, CSP, XSS)
• Familiar with AI coding assistants to accelerate SDLC
• Experience with CI/CD and automated testing frameworks

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and design of scalable platform services
• Drive technical strategy across multiple engineering teams
• Shape technical roadmaps with Product and Engineering leadership
• Design and deliver high-scale distributed systems and APIs
• Champion engineering excellence and observability
• Advocate for Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, cloud-native practices
• Evaluate modern technologies and AI-assisted workflows
• Mentor engineers and promote ownership and collaboration
• Evolve platform capabilities for personalized customer experiences

Skills

Technical leadership

Hands-on engineering

AI-assisted development

Cross-team collaboration

Cloud-native engineering

Software architecture

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS or related field

Tools

AWS

GCP

DynamoDB

Neo4j/Neptune

Kafka/Kinesis

Node.js/TypeScript

Terraform

Okta/Auth0 & OAuth2/OpenID

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for Platform Services within its Digital Marketing Technology organization.

You will guide the architecture and evolution of a unified digital platform powering personalized experiences across Salesforce.com and Trailblazer ecosystem. You will partner with engineering, product, and platform teams to design scalable cloud-native services, mentor engineers, and raise engineering standards across globally distributed teams.