Salesforce
Lead Software Engineer - Platform Services
$172K–$286K
California - San Francisco +5 · Office Tech-Flexible · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Location
- California - San Francisco
California - Palo Alto
Illinois - Chicago
New York - New York
Washington - Seattle
Indiana - Indianapolis - Experience
- 8+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related technical subject area, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
About the job
Leads architecture and hands-on development of scalable platform services, APIs, and distributed systems for Salesforce’s global digital experiences.
What you'll do
- Design and lead development of secure, resilient platform services and high-scale distributed systems.
- Set technical direction and partner across teams on architecture, roadmaps, and engineering standards.
- Mentor engineers and advance cloud-native, DevOps, and AI-assisted engineering practices.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of professional software development experience building and maintaining large-scale production services.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related technical subject area, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience with microservices, domain-driven design, RESTful and GraphQL APIs, and public cloud platforms.
- Experience with backend JavaScript or TypeScript, web security, and AI coding assistants.
Nice to have
- AWS experience and familiarity with its services; Node.js is preferred.
- Experience with Terraform and consumer identity platforms or protocols such as Okta, Auth0, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect.
Pay
$172,500 - $260,100 USD base salary; $207,800 - $285,800 USD base salary in select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area
Tools
AWS, GCP, API Gateway, Lambdas, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, Kafka
AI focus
Use AI coding assistants and AI-assisted engineering workflows to improve developer productivity, accelerate software delivery, and support software quality.
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