Senior AI-First Backend Engineer

Salesforce; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 314,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking an Engineer to build production‑grade software with an AI-first approach. You’ll design complex systems where AI agents integrate into human workflows and maintain backend services leveraging LLMs via external APIs.

You will evaluate code for quality and security and develop test automation and quality tooling for reliable CI pipelines. You will work in a hybrid model in the Salesforce Trust Platform team, contributing to secure, scalable enterprise workloads with a focus

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional Java development experience.
• AI-first approach to engineering, using AI to move faster and broaden expertise.
• Ability to design, iterate on, and test prompts that produce structured LLM outputs (JSON).
• RESTful APIs design and consumption; working knowledge of AWS services.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software with AI as a core part of the development workflow.
• Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate into human workflows.
• Architect and maintain backend services integrating Large Language Models via external APIs with robust observability.
• Critically evaluate code (human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance.
• Develop test automation and quality tooling for unit/CI testing.

Skills

Java development

AI-first engineering

AI tools usage

RESTful APIs

AWS

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Bazel/Maven

Jenkins

TypeScript / Python

Tools

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Bazel

Maven

AWS

Job description

Salesforce is seeking an Engineer to build production‑grade software with an AI-first approach. You’ll design complex systems where AI agents integrate into human workflows and maintain backend services leveraging LLMs via external APIs.

You will evaluate code for quality and security and develop test automation and quality tooling for reliable CI pipelines. You will work in a hybrid model in the Salesforce Trust Platform team, contributing to secure, scalable enterprise workloads with a focus