Lead Software Engineer, Backend – Enterprise Productivity

Salesforce, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

AI tools and automation

Accommodations available

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and scale authentication, admin productivity, and connector frameworks. You will collaborate with product, design, and frontend teams to ship features that boost adoption and reliability across enterprise workflows.

You will work with PHP/Hack, Java, Python, Ruby, and Go, contributing to secure designs, production support, and mentoring junior engineers. Expect a high-impact role in a fast-paced, AI-driven CRM environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building web applications or backend services.
• Experience with PHP/Hack, Java, Python, Ruby, Go, or similar languages.
• Experience with OAuth 2.0/OIDC and authorization models, ideally with Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 integrations.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services and API methods for admin and user authentication and connection flows with Google and Microsoft (OAuth, domain-wide delegation, token management, and permission policies).
• Own and evolve the Admin Productivity Suite backend, including bulk approve/install pipelines, install-state storage, failure handling, and admin analytics.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Frontend to ship features that raise connected-user and DWA adoption, using experiments and data to guide the roadmap.
• Work across team boundaries on shared permission, auth, and connector frameworks.
• Contribute heavily to team projects with significant business impact, and own the long-term health of the systems you build.
• Write secure, well-documented designs and work with Security through scoped review.
• Help support and operations triage and resolve production issues.
• Mentor other engineers, review code in depth, and improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

Skills

Backend services

OAuth 2.0

Distributed systems

Team collaboration

Strong communicator

CS fundamentals

Education

Computer science degree

Tools

PHP/Hack

Java

Python

Ruby

Go

Job description

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

Job Category Software Engineering Job Details About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together.

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The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

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ABOUT SLACK

Slack is your Digital HQ - a place where work flows between your people, systems, partners, and customers.

From Fortune 100 companies to corner markets, millions of people around the world use Slack to connect their teams, unify their systems, and drive their business forward.

Slack breaks down communication silos inside and beyond your organization by bringing teams and tools together around common goals, projects and processes in channels and in Slack Connect.

In this digital-first era, Slack's mission is to make people's work lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive.

A taste of our scale and reach: Slack delivers 300k+ messages per second 77% of the Fortune 100 use Slack 150+ countries have daily active users in Slack 200k+ paid customers

The Experience

The Enterprise Productivity team gets orgs authenticated and connected to their productivity suites (Google Workspace and Microsoft 365) and admin tools.

Our mission is to close the productivity gap between Slack and Microsoft Teams and unlock deep interoperability with the Microsoft and Google suites, making Slack the clear choice for enterprise customers.

You'll work with product managers, designers, frontend, mobile, and quality engineers, and with partner teams across Platform, Slackbot, and 3P Integrations.

We build on PHP/Hack, Java, and MySQL. Expertise in these is a plus, but familiarity with other web languages (Python, Ruby, Go) and relational databases is a fine substitute.

We value simplicity and reliability as properties of a system to be carefully calculated with every decision.

Slack has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture.

We look for people who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every day.

We aim to be smart, humble, hardworking and, above all, collaborative.

What you will actually being doing:

• Design and build backend services and API methods for admin and user authentication and connection flows with Google and Microsoft (OAuth, domain-wide delegation, token management, and permission policies).
• Own and evolve the Admin Productivity Suite backend, including bulk approve/install pipelines, install-state storage, failure handling, and admin analytics.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Frontend to ship features that raise connected-user and DWA adoption, using experiments and data to guide the roadmap.
• Work across team boundaries (Platform, Slackbot, Enterprise Search, 3P Integrations) on shared permission, auth, and connector frameworks, including the evolution from 2.0 connectors toward MCP.
• Contribute heavily to team projects with significant business impact, and own the long-term health of the systems you build.
• Write secure, well-documented designs and work with Security through scoped review.
• Help support and operations triage and resolve production issues.
• Mentor other engineers, review code in depth, and improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

You are our person if

• 6+ years of professional experience building web applications or backend services.
• Experience with PHP/Hack, Java, Python, Ruby, Go, or similar languages.
• Experience with OAuth 2.0/OIDC and authorization models, ideally with Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 / Entra ID integrations (admin consent, domain-wide delegation, Graph or Google APIs).
• Ability to contribute to technical architecture discussions and drive technical decisions within the team.
• Understandable, testable, maintainable code.
• Strong communication skills, including explaining complex concepts to designers, support, and other engineers, and collaborating across teams.
• Solid computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and information retrieval.
• A related technical degree.

Even Better If You have:

• Experience with enterprise admin tooling, permission policies, or multi-tenant (Enterprise Grid) architectures.
• Experience with feature flags, experimentation, and data-driven product development.
• Experience with MCP or connector frameworks.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you'll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best , and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best . Together, we'll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love.

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