Principal Backend & Data Engineer – Production

salesforce.com, inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 197,000 - 314,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time off programs

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Mental health support

Parental leave

Life and disability insurance

401(k)

Employee stock purchase program

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (PMTS) to lead the Agentforce Process Intelligence team. You will own end-to-end architecture of backend services and full-stack applications enabling enterprises to discover, simulate, and optimize business processes at scale.

This role combines large-scale distributed systems, data analytics, and cloud platform engineering, requiring strong Java and Python expertise and a proven track record leading API strategy, tenant isolation, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience.
• Shipping enterprise SaaS at scale and guiding technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Drive backend/frontend architecture and delivery for scalable services on Kubernetes.
• Own API strategy, versioning, and contract stewardship for headless architectures.
• Lead multi-team back-end and data processing initiatives with strong security and reliability focus.
• Write architectural documents, design specs, and test plans; participate in design reviews.

Skills

Java

Python

Spring Boot

Hibernate/JPA

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Kubernetes

Docker

REST API design

Security (mTLS, auth)

Education

Related technical degree

Tools

Liquibase

Alembic

PostgreSQL/MySQL

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (PMTS) to lead the Agentforce Process Intelligence team. You will own end-to-end architecture of backend services and full-stack applications enabling enterprises to discover, simulate, and optimize business processes at scale.

This role combines large-scale distributed systems, data analytics, and cloud platform engineering, requiring strong Java and Python expertise and a proven track record leading API strategy, tenant isolation, and