Hybrid Principal Engineer – Agentforce

at Salesforce

• Job title: Principal Engineer – Agentforce
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $197,300 - $313,700 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Google Cloud Platform, Heroku, Microservices, Python, SDLC, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Principal Engineer at Salesforce developing features for AI-driven Agentforce platform. Leading collaborative team in building and maintaining scalable systems for millions of users.

Responsibilities

• Build, scale and maintain critical features and systems within the Agentforce platform that are used by millions of end users
• Understand the customer/business requirements and translate them to elegant, flexible, and easy-to-use platform capabilities
• Lead and participate in Software Design and Architecture discussions and decision making
• Drive the execution and delivery of features and systems by collaborating with architects, product owners, engineers, user experience designers and data scientists
• Develop and approve test strategies, design automation frameworks, write unit and functional tests to drive up code coverage and automation goals
• Lead and mentor junior members of the team, and act as a Technical Leader for teams
• Adopt, embrace, and promote agile and test-driven software development practices
• Be a multiplier and have a passion for team and team members’ success
• Lead the team by example for technical excellence and help the team members make sound decisions

Requirements

• A related technical degree required
• 7+ years of hands-on experience building, scaling and maintaining large scale, complex distributed systems in the B2B (or B2C) SaaS space that scale for millions of users and is available 24x7
• In-depth working knowledge of Go and Python
• Solid experience in developing/maintaining large scale microservices using public cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or Heroku
• Experience in REST based API development, API lifecycle management and/or client SDKs development
• Experience in test-driven development with focus on unit testing, integration testing and end-to-end automation
• Solid understanding of SDLC, and best practices in design, development, testing, and deployment
• Experience with Agile development methodologies, pair programming, continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD)
• Ability to support/resolve production customer escalations with excellent debugging and problem solving skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Self driven with superior organizational and project management skills.

Benefits

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