Principal Backend & AI Platform Engineer

Salesforce, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 197,000 - 314,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain production-grade backend services for the Data Platform. You will work with Python/Go/Java, REST/gRPC APIs, and cloud-based data technologies on AWS, with a focus on reliability and scale.

You’ll contribute to AI/LLM agent runtimes, RAG pipelines, and platform tooling, while advancing CI/CD, Terraform IaC, and observability to ship robust data products across teams.

Qualifications

• 15+ years backend experience designing and maintaining production services.
• Expert Python/Go/Java for server-side development.
• REST and gRPC API design with scalable data layers.
• AWS production environment experience (ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services for the Data Platform, including Agent runtimes on AWS Bedrock ECS Fargate and event-driven Lambda handlers.
• Develop AI/agent runtimes and RAG pipelines for data products.
• Extend platform tooling and data-domain abstractions for internal data teams.
• Ensure IaC management with Terraform and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve reliability, observability, and security across services.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

REST

gRPC

Distributed systems

AWS

Tools

Terraform

Airflow

Snowflake

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain production-grade backend services for the Data Platform. You will work with Python/Go/Java, REST/gRPC APIs, and cloud-based data technologies on AWS, with a focus on reliability and scale.

You’ll contribute to AI/LLM agent runtimes, RAG pipelines, and platform tooling, while advancing CI/CD, Terraform IaC, and observability to ship robust data products across teams.