Senior Backend Engineer: AI-Powered Agent Framework

Salesforce; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 246,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join the Agentforce team in San Francisco. You will design a core agent framework, shape a growing skills ecosystem, and build the evaluation infrastructure that keeps AI behavior trustworthy at scale.

You will drive production-grade software with a focus on AI-enabled workflows, secure coding practices, and reliable delivery. This role emphasizes collaboration across teams and hands-on leadership.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience designing and building large-scale distributed backend systems.
• Experience with API design and versioning for widely used systems.
• Strong skills in at least one modern programming language with production code shipping.
• Ability to reason about ambiguous, large-scale systems and communicate tradeoffs.
• Demonstrated AI-first engineering approach using AI tools to accelerate work.
• Advanced prompt engineering skills to write precise, structured prompts.
• Related technical degree.

Responsibilities

• Design and build a core agent framework that hosts many specialized capabilities, orchestrates sub tasks reliably, and integrates into human workflows.
• Define the contract for reusable agent skills, focusing on API design, versioning, and composability.
• Build evaluation infrastructure to measure agent quality and catch regressions.
• Help agents efficiently find right records and context using structured queries, catalogs, and semantic search.
• Build and ship production-grade software with AI as a core part of the development workflow.
• Contribute to the shared system context with designs, constraints, and standards that enable AI to operate reliably.
• Critically evaluate code, human or AI generated, for correctness, quality, security, and performance.

Skills

Distributed backend systems

API design

Versioning

Modern programming language

AI-first engineering

Prompt engineering

System design

Education

Related technical degree

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join the Agentforce team in San Francisco. You will design a core agent framework, shape a growing skills ecosystem, and build the evaluation infrastructure that keeps AI behavior trustworthy at scale.

You will drive production-grade software with a focus on AI-enabled workflows, secure coding practices, and reliable delivery. This role emphasizes collaboration across teams and hands-on leadership.