Staff Engineer — AI-Driven Revenue Platform

Salesloft; United States; On-site; USD 185,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Clari + Salesloft is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to advance a cloud-based, AI-driven enterprise platform. You will design robust interfaces, collaborate with product, design, and frontend teams, and lead cross-functional projects with measurable business impact.

You’ll work on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and ML-powered features, joining a team that values innovation, collaboration, and engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in building distributed systems or platform infrastructure designed for high-scale, data-intensive workloads.
• Expert-level proficiency in Java or a similar object-oriented language and familiarity with infrastructure tooling (Airflow, Kubernetes, Ray, Terraform), service frameworks (FastAPI, gRPC), and observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, Splunk)
• Demonstrated experience working with cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS or GCP, including Kubernetes clusters (GKE/EKS), serverless architectures, and managed services (e.g., Lambda, Cloud Run, ECS)
• Proven experience with distributed data infrastructure: message queues (Kafka, Kinesis), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), database optimization, and building resilient, fault-tolerant architectures
• Familiarity with SQL (postgres) / NoSQL (MongoDB) and data warehouse modeling; capable of managing complex data queries, joins, aggregations, and transformations
• Solid understanding of platform monitoring and optimization, including identifying performance bottlenecks, latency optimization, cost management, and scaling high-through‑through API services efficiently
• Deep experience building LLM-powered and agentic systems beyond chat-based interfaces

Responsibilities

• Shape future-proof interfaces that are easy to build against and meet the requirements of client-facing teams
• Brainstorm with Product Managers, Designers, Frontend Engineers, and other cross-functional partners to conceptualize and build new features for our growing user base
• Produce high-quality results by leading or contributing heavily to large cross-functional projects that have a significant impact on the business
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack, and uplevel the observability and reliability of the overall system
• Improve engineering standards, and AI tooling adoption.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java

LLM systems

Observability

Performance optimization

Tools

Airflow

Kubernetes

Ray

Terraform

FastAPI

gRPC

Prometheus

Grafana

DataDog

Splunk

AWS

GCP

Kafka

Kinesis

Postgres

MongoDB

Job description

Clari + Salesloft is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to advance a cloud-based, AI-driven enterprise platform. You will design robust interfaces, collaborate with product, design, and frontend teams, and lead cross-functional projects with measurable business impact.

You’ll work on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and ML-powered features, joining a team that values innovation, collaboration, and engineering excellence.