Senior Software Engineer

Filetwigbay; Lake Charles (LA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 137,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce in Lake Charles, LA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to shape the architecture of fault-tolerant systems and migrate legacy Salesforce components. You will collaborate across teams, prototype Redis approaches, and own critical technical decisions.

You bring at least 5 years of experience, comfort with full-time, hands-on work, and a track record of delivering reliable estimates. This role emphasizes teamwork, risk awareness, and impactful contributions to the tech stack.

Qualifications

• A collaborative mindset and enthusiasm for teamwork.
• Comfort steering technology conversations toward a decision.
• The reflex to surface risk before it surfaces itself.
• Comfort owning a number that goes up or down because of you.
• At least 5 years of standing behind your own estimates.
• Comfort with full-time arrangements and the rhythms of a hands-dirty workplace.

Responsibilities

• Watch Empathy error budgets and pump the brakes before Lake Charles, LA burns through them.
• Prototype rough Redis ideas fast, then decide which earn a place in Salesforce's stack.
• Lead the Strategic Planning migration that finally retires Salesforce's thoughtfully-bold legacy stack.
• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools.
• Translate fast-growing business requirements into technical specifications and tasks.
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Redis and Ruby.

Skills

Team collaboration

Decision making

Risk management

Numerical ownership

Tools

Redis

Ruby

Salesforce

Job description

The Senior Software Engineer we're after in Lake Charles thinks in GitLab CI, dreams in Ruby, and argues about naming conventions for sport. Few Lake Charles employers pair $99,000 - $137,000 with this much technology autonomy, and fewer still ask only 5 years to earn it.

Key Responsibilities

• Watch Empathy error budgets and pump the brakes before Lake Charles, LA burns through them
• Prototype rough Redis ideas fast, then decide which earn a place in Salesforce's stack
• Lead the Strategic Planning migration that finally retires Salesforce's thoughtfully-bold legacy stack
• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools
• Translate fast-growing business requirements into technical specifications and tasks
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Redis and Ruby

What You'll Bring

• A collaborative mindset and genuine enthusiasm for teamwork
• Comfort steering technology conversations toward a decision
• The reflex to surface risk before it surfaces itself
• Comfort owning a number that goes up or down because of you
• At least 5 years of standing behind your own estimates
• Comfort with full-time arrangements and the rhythms of a hands-dirty workplace

Salesforce grew up alongside its customers, scaling from a single Lake Charles room into the technology partner much of LA now trusts. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll have a real voice in shaping how the technology team operates.

We answer the money question first with $99,000 - $137,000, then keep going with growth budgets, mentorship, and a flexible full-time schedule.

Right now Salesforce is mid-search, and the Senior Software Engineer chair is yours to claim.