Senior Backend Engineer: AI-Powered Agent Framework

Salesforce

Palo Alto (CA)

On-site

USD 149,000 - 246,000

Full time

13 hours ago
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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.

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