Mid​/Senior​/Lead Backend Software Engineer

Position: Mid/Senior/Lead Backend Software Engineer,
Mid/Senior/Lead Backend Software Engineer

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Role Description

Salesforce has immediate opportunities for senior software developers who want their lines of code to have significant and measurable positive impact for users. We pride ourselves on writing high‑quality, maintainable code that strengthens the stability of the product and makes our lives easier. We embrace the hybrid model and celebrate the individual strengths of each team member while encouraging everyone on the team to grow into the best version of themselves.

Responsibilities

• Build new and exciting components/frameworks in developing distributed file systems to provide scale and efficiency.

• Develop high‑quality, production‑ready code that can be used by millions of users of our cloud platform.

• Build efficient components/algorithms on a microservice multi‑tenant SaaS cloud distributed file system environment.

• Code review, mentor junior engineers, and provide technical guidance to the team.

Required Skills

• Mastery of programming language(s) and platforms with 10+ years of software development experience.

• Deep knowledge of object‑oriented programming and other scripting languages:
Java, Python.

• Strong SQL skills and experience with relational and non‑relational databases (Postgres, Trino).

• Experience developing SaaS products over public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP).

• Proven experience designing and developing distributed systems at scale, including queues, locks, scheduling, event‑driven architecture, and workload distribution.

• Deep understanding of software development best practices and demonstrated leadership skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Big‑Data/ML and S3.

• Hands‑on experience with streaming technologies like Kafka.

• Experience with Elasticsearch.

• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker.

• Experience working in a high‑paced and rapidly growing multinational organization.

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Posting Statement

Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non‑discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal.

Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey.

It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination and everything in between.

In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.

More details about company benefits can be found at  Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

For California‑based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $172,000 to $276,100.

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