Hybrid Lead Software Engineer, Backend Systems

at Salesforce

• Job title: Lead Software Engineer, Backend Systems
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $184,000 - $276,100 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems, GraphQL, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Lead Software Engineer focusing on backend systems for Salesforce's AI-driven supply chain platform. Architecting and building reliable SaaS backend systems with high autonomy and technical ownership.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build scalable, extensible, and reliable backend systems for data-intensive software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and help shape the long-term technical roadmap.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Design, Product Management and industry experts to deeply understand customer problems, build high-quality product features and make thoughtful tradeoffs that maximize impact.
• Lead and mentor engineers, providing guidance and expertise in backend development, database systems and distributed systems, while cultivating broader engineering skills.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, incorporating new developments into the backend architecture and processes where appropriate.
• Conduct code reviews, technical discussions and decision-making processes to maintain high standards of code quality and best practices.
• Drive the adoption of best practices in backend development, data modeling, API design and observability, ensuring scalable, maintainable systems and operational excellence.
• Champion a culture of innovation, encouraging and leading initiatives to explore new technologies and improve existing systems.

Requirements

• A related technical degree
• 5+ years of industry experience as a backend software engineer, with a focus on large-scale, user-facing web applications
• Proven experience architecting and implementing large or complex software as a service (SaaS) systems, with a strong understanding of scalable, extendable and resilient architectural patterns
• Extensive experience in database systems development, API design, data modeling, distributed systems and building robust, modern application backends.
• Experience with Go and GraphQL is strongly preferred, with the ability to quickly learn new technologies as needed
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Passion for continuous learning and effective informal mentorship, fostering an environment of clear communication, constructive discussion, and engineering growth
• Experience ensuring operational excellence through observability, monitoring, logging, and reliability practices
• Proven end-to-end ownership of engineering projects, leading work independently and in collaboration with others
• Strong judgment in technical/product tradeoffs and prioritizing for customer and business impact
• Ability to work closely with product/design to deeply understand customer problems and shape effective solutions
• Demonstrated ability to drive technical direction, architecture decisions, and engineering best practices.

Benefits

• time off programs
• medical
• dental
• vision
• mental health support
• paid parental leave
• life and disability insurance
• 401(k)
• employee stock purchasing program