Senior Backend Engineer, AI-Driven Systems

Engg

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Salesforce in San Francisco is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to design and build a core agent framework that enables scalable AI-powered product setup and configuration. You will lead integration of agent skills, ensure reliability, and work across teams.

You bring 6+ years building large-scale distributed backends, strong API design skills, and a proven ability to trade off complex choices. This role emphasizes AI-first engineering, code quality, security, and production readiness in a

Qualifications

6+ years designing and building large-scale distributed backend systems.
Experience with API design, versioning and scalable systems.
Strong problem solving and tradeoff communication.

Responsibilities

Design and build a core agent framework hosting specialized capabilities.
Define reusable agent skills contracts with APIs, versioning, and composability.
Build evaluation infrastructure to measure AI quality and catch regressions.
Enable agents to find records with structured queries, catalogs, and semantic search.
Deliver production-grade code with modern engineering practices and AI integration.
Maintain shared system context documenting designs and standards.
Critically evaluate code for correctness, quality, security, and performance.