Senior Backend Engineer (Java) — AI-First, Flexible Office

Salesforce, Inc.

San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY)

Hybrid

USD 149,000 - 246,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (Java) for our California offices in San Francisco or Palo Alto. You will design and implement a scalable backend framework and AI-driven workflows, shipping production-grade code in a fast-paced environment.

You will work across agent runtime, capability and skill design, and evaluation infrastructure to ensure trustworthy AI at scale. The role emphasizes API design, distributed systems, and strong programming in modern languages.

Qualifications

6+ years designing and building large-scale distributed backend systems.
Experience with API design, versioning, and building systems used by many teams.
Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language and production code shipping.

Responsibilities

Design and build a core agent framework hosting many specialized capabilities.
Define the contract for reusable agent skills, focusing on API design, versioning, and composability.
Build evaluation infrastructure to measure agent quality even when outputs are non-deterministic.
Help agents efficiently find the right records and context using structured queries, catalogs, and semantic search.