Senior AI‑Focused Backend Engineer (LLMs)

Salesforce; Seattle (WA); Híbrido; USD 149.000 - 224.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Office-Flex: in-person 3 days/wk

Descripción de la vacante

Salesforce is seeking an experienced Software Engineer in Seattle to build AI-enabled systems and secure, scalable backend services. You will design and ship production-grade software with AI as a core development component, integrating AI agents into human workflows and ensuring observability for long-running AI jobs.

Strong Java experience (4+ years) and familiarity with RESTful APIs, AWS, and CI/CD pipelines are required.

Formación

• 4+ years of professional Java development experience.
• Genuine AI-first approach to engineering using AI to move faster.
• Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor).
• Ability to design, iterate on, and test prompts for structured LLM outputs (JSON).
• Designing and consuming RESTful APIs with working knowledge of AWS services.
• Experience with Bazel or Maven and a monorepo.
• CI/CD pipelines experience with Jenkins, Docker, container ops.
• TypeScript (Node) and/or Python service development considered a plus.
• Office-Flex: work in-person three days per week; or 10 days per quarter for some teams.

Responsabilidades

• Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software with AI as a core part of development workflow.
• Design complex systems where AI agents integrate into human workflows at scale.
• Architect and maintain backend services integrating LLMs via external APIs with robust observability.
• Critically evaluate code (Human or AI) for quality, security, and performance.
• Develop test automation and quality tooling (unit/CI tests, failure analysis, flake awareness).

Conocimientos

Java development (4+ years)

AI-first engineering

AI tools experience

RESTful APIs

AWS knowledge

Bazel/Maven

CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins)

Docker / container ops

TypeScript / Python (plus)

Office-Flex: in-person 3 days/wk

Herramientas

AWS (S3, STS, KMS, Lambda, DynamoDB)

Bazel

Maven

Jenkins

Docker

Descripción del empleo

Salesforce is seeking an experienced Software Engineer in Seattle to build AI-enabled systems and secure, scalable backend services. You will design and ship production-grade software with AI as a core development component, integrating AI agents into human workflows and ensuring observability for long-running AI jobs.

Strong Java experience (4+ years) and familiarity with RESTful APIs, AWS, and CI/CD pipelines are required.