Salesforce

Software Engineering Principal Architect

Salesforce

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaWashingtonUnited States

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Salary

💰 $257,500 - $451,700 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Design and evolve highly scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant transactional and distributed system architectures
  • Provide architectural leadership for transactional storage and compute, including metadata, logs, and database compute layers
  • Drive automation and operational excellence through control-plane-driven architectures
  • Ensure systems meet strict Trust SLAs for availability, reliability, scalability, and self-healing
  • Collaborate across engineering, operations, and product teams to align architecture with business and platform goals
  • Use telemetry and metrics to guide design decisions and continuous improvement
  • Mentor senior engineers while remaining open to learning and feedback
  • Contribute hands-on when needed, including design reviews, code reviews, and critical implementations

Requirements

  • Proven experience designing and building scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant transactional and distributed systems in enterprise production environments
  • Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence across teams and levels
  • Highly inventive, pragmatic, and delivery-focused, with a track record of incremental, on-time execution
  • Expert-level Kubernetes, Java development experience in Unix/Linux environments
  • Deep understanding of object-oriented programming, modern design patterns, and system architecture principles
  • Strong experience using telemetry, metrics, and observability to drive operational excellence
  • High engineering rigor, including writing functional and unit tests and participating in peer code reviews
  • Experience working in Agile development environments with a commitment to continuous improvement
  • 20+ years of professional experience, or a Master’s degree in a relevant field with 12+ years of professional experience
  • Experience with relational databases is a strong plus
Benefits
  • time off programs
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • mental health support
  • paid parental leave
  • life and disability insurance
  • 401(k)
  • employee stock purchasing program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
KubernetesJavaobject-oriented programmingdesign patternssystem architecturetelemetrymetricsobservabilityfunctional testingunit testing
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationinfluencepragmaticdelivery-focusedincremental executionmentoringcollaborationopenness to feedbackcommitment to continuous improvement
Certifications
Master’s degree in relevant field