Senior Backend Engineer — Admin Productivity & OAuth

Salesforce, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

AI tools and automation

Accommodations available

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and scale authentication, admin productivity, and connector frameworks. You will collaborate with product, design, and frontend teams to ship features that boost adoption and reliability across enterprise workflows.

You will work with PHP/Hack, Java, Python, Ruby, and Go, contributing to secure designs, production support, and mentoring junior engineers. Expect a high-impact role in a fast-paced, AI-driven CRM environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building web applications or backend services.
• Experience with PHP/Hack, Java, Python, Ruby, Go, or similar languages.
• Experience with OAuth 2.0/OIDC and authorization models, ideally with Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 integrations.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services and API methods for admin and user authentication and connection flows with Google and Microsoft (OAuth, domain-wide delegation, token management, and permission policies).
• Own and evolve the Admin Productivity Suite backend, including bulk approve/install pipelines, install-state storage, failure handling, and admin analytics.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Frontend to ship features that raise connected-user and DWA adoption, using experiments and data to guide the roadmap.
• Work across team boundaries on shared permission, auth, and connector frameworks.
• Contribute heavily to team projects with significant business impact, and own the long-term health of the systems you build.
• Write secure, well-documented designs and work with Security through scoped review.
• Help support and operations triage and resolve production issues.
• Mentor other engineers, review code in depth, and improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

Skills

Backend services

OAuth 2.0

Distributed systems

Team collaboration

Strong communicator

CS fundamentals

Education

Computer science degree

Tools

PHP/Hack

Java

Python

Ruby

Go

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and scale authentication, admin productivity, and connector frameworks. You will collaborate with product, design, and frontend teams to ship features that boost adoption and reliability across enterprise workflows.

You will work with PHP/Hack, Java, Python, Ruby, and Go, contributing to secure designs, production support, and mentoring junior engineers. Expect a high-impact role in a fast-paced, AI-driven CRM environment.