Lead Software Engineer

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Job Category Software Engineering Job Details About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. The Managed Runtime is a technology platform at Salesforce that serves java script-backed websites and services at massive scale (100s of millions of requests in a day, millions of sessions) using AWS serverless technologies.

Our first adopters are customer and partner developers working on headless commerce sites in Commerce Cloud, but also serve sites for customers integrating with Salesforce sites for Marketing Cloud use cases beyond commerce. Managed runtime control plane service is deployed in Hyperforce, Salesforce’s Public Cloud infrastructure on 22 core FDs. Team operates a total of 23 control plane instances across Core and Commerce FDs.

Fun fact: MRT served 4

Billion page views during the week of Thanksgiving, 2025

• Write, test and release server-side Python, Java and JavaScript code early and often
• Collaborate in code and design review, and security assessment processes to create higher quality, secure, maintainable systems
• Build products with a cross functional product development team including product managers, designers and other engineers
• Use Python with Django and Flask to orchestrate deployments to our AWS-based hosting environment
• Use AWS technologies, and Node.js to create performant, scalable and fault tolerant deployments of Salesforce and partner developed code deployed on our infrastructure
• Present your work to your peers and stakeholders

• You have good general knowledge of data structures, web application deployment patterns and networking
• You’ve worked on a team that has built a large web application
• You have extensive experience using backend development languages like Python, Java and experience with MVC frameworks, relational databases and Object-Relational mappers
• You’ve implemented asynchronous tasks with a queue in a distributed system, using tools like Celery, Resque, Rqueue, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS, or Redis
• You’ve worked with complex deployments on AWS or other cloud providers, using tools like AWS Cloud formation, Terraform and Kubernetes
• You’ve used CDN infrastructure like Akamai, AWS Cloudfront or Cloudflare
• You have experience crafting Continuous Integration and Delivery workflows using tools like Jenkins, Spinnaker or Helm Charts
• You’re a strong communicator who loves to collaborate with a team, and can speak, write and use diagrams to convey complex ideas
• You have a growth mindset and have experience growing other Engineers

Unleash Your Potential When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love.

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