Principal Software Engineer – Platform, APIs & Data

salesforce.com, inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 197,300 - 313,700; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) and ESPP

Medical benefits

Parental leave

Life and disability insurance

Mental health support

Time off programs

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (PMTS) for the Agentforce Process Intelligence team. You will drive backend and full‑stack architecture enabling enterprise customers to discover, simulate and optimize processes at scale.

You will own the API strategy, database migrations, and data processing pipelines, collaborating across security, product, and customers. Strong Java/Python, Kubernetes, and cloud experience are essential for this highly impactful role.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience shipping enterprise SaaS at scale.
• Strong proficiency in Java and Python, production‑level fluency across both.
• Experience with multi‑tenant SaaS ecosystems and tenant‑isolation patterns.
• Experience designing, operating and evolving highly available distributed systems on AWS or comparable cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Drive the architecture, design, implementation and delivery of secure, highly scalable backend services on Kubernetes for a multi‑AZ cloud architecture.
• Set the long‑term technical vision for the backend and microservices towards a pooled multi‑tenant model.
• Own architecture for Python‑based data processing services and ETL pipelines feeding large‑scale ingest and transformation.
• Lead the API strategy, including design, versioning, deprecation policy and long‑term contract stewardship for public and internal APIs exposing Process Intelligence capabilities.
• Architect database consolidation and migration using PostgreSQL, Liquibase and connection pooling strategies.
• Drive integration with big data engines and storage formats for correct routing of analytical workloads and SLOs.
• Shape authentication and authorization integrations with identity providers and partner with Security on threat modeling, AppSec and AI safety guardrails.
• Define SLIs and SLOs and lead telemetry strategy across pre‑release to production stages.
• Set test strategy and approve test plans across unit, integration, functional, regression and performance.

Skills

Java

Python

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

REST APIs

Cloud platforms

Education

Related technical degree

Tools

Spring Boot

Hibernate/JPA

Tomcat

Liquibase

PostgreSQL

Docker

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (PMTS) for the Agentforce Process Intelligence team. You will drive backend and full‑stack architecture enabling enterprise customers to discover, simulate and optimize processes at scale.

You will own the API strategy, database migrations, and data processing pipelines, collaborating across security, product, and customers. Strong Java/Python, Kubernetes, and cloud experience are essential for this highly impactful role.