Lead Platform Services Engineer - Scale, Cloud & AI

Salesforce

Chicago (IL)

On-site

USD 173,000 - 286,000

Full time

7 days ago
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Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to shape the architecture of a scalable, cloud-native Platform Services platform within the Digital Marketing Technology organization in the United States. You will lead hands-on technical work across architecture, platform innovation, and large-scale distributed systems, mentoring engineers and elevating engineering standards.

You’ll partner with product, architecture, and platform teams to design cloud-native services powering Salesforce’s global

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of professional software development in large-scale, distributed systems.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture and design of scalable, secure, and resilient platform services.
  • Drive technical strategy and influence architectural decisions across 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, and CI/CD.
  • Mentor engineers and elevate engineering standards across teams.
  • Evolve platform capabilities to enable dynamic, personalized customer experiences globally.

Skills

Distributed systems
Cloud-native
API design
AI-assisted development
Node.js / JavaScript
AWS / GCP
Microservices
Security best practices
Leadership

Education

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

Tools

AWS
GCP
Terraform
REST / GraphQL
DynamoDB / NoSQL
Kafka / Kinesis
Neo4j / Neptune

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to shape the architecture of a scalable, cloud-native Platform Services platform within the Digital Marketing Technology organization in the United States. You will lead hands-on technical work across architecture, platform innovation, and large-scale distributed systems, mentoring engineers and elevating engineering standards.

You’ll partner with product, architecture, and platform teams to design cloud-native services powering Salesforce’s global

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