Senior AI-Driven Backend Engineer

Salesforce, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office-Flex

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. seeks a software engineer focused on AI-enabled development to join the Agentforce initiative in San Francisco.

You will build production-grade software with AI as a core part of your development workflow, integrate AI agents with human workflows, and maintain backend services with LLM integration and observability. Ideal candidates have 4+ years in Java, hands-on AI tooling, RESTful APIs, AWS services, and experience with CI/CD, Docker, and monorepo workflows.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional Java development experience.
• A genuine AI-first approach to engineering and using AI to move faster.
• Experience with AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor).
• Ability to design, iterate on, and test system prompts for structured JSON outputs.
• Designing and consuming RESTful APIs with AWS (S3, STS, KMS, Lambda, DynamoDB).
• Experience with Bazel or Maven and monorepo workflows.
• Experience with Jenkins or CI/CD, Docker image creation, and container ops.
• Office-Flex: in-person three days per week; or 10 days per quarter.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software with AI as a core part of your development workflow.
• Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate into human workflows.
• Architect and maintain backend services integrating LLMs via external APIs with observability.
• Critically evaluate code for correctness, quality, security, and performance.
• Develop test automation and quality tooling, focusing on unit/CI test generation.

Skills

Java development

AI-first engineering

AI tools usage

RESTful APIs

System design & testing

CI/CD

Monorepo workflows

Prompt design for JSON outputs

Tools

AWS

Jenkins

Docker

Bazel

Maven

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. seeks a software engineer focused on AI-enabled development to join the Agentforce initiative in San Francisco.

You will build production-grade software with AI as a core part of your development workflow, integrate AI agents with human workflows, and maintain backend services with LLM integration and observability. Ideal candidates have 4+ years in Java, hands-on AI tooling, RESTful APIs, AWS services, and experience with CI/CD, Docker, and monorepo workflows.