Lead Software Engineer – Platform Services

Salesforce

Lead Software Engineer at Salesforce focusing on building scalable and secure platform services. Driving innovation and technical strategy within a cross-functional team environment.

Posted 5/16/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California, Illinois, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $172,500 - $260,100 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDynamoDBGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLJavaScriptJestKafkaMicroservicesNeo4jNode.jsNoSQLSDLCTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the architecture and design of scalable, secure, and resilient platform services
Drive technical strategy and influence architectural decisions across multiple engineering teams
Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to shape technical roadmaps aligned with business goals
Design and deliver high-scale distributed systems and APIs supporting Salesforce’s global digital experiences
Champion engineering excellence through best practices in system design, testing, observability, scalability, and operational maturity
Drive innovation in Agile development, DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native engineering practices
Evaluate and adopt modern technologies and AI-assisted engineering workflows that improve developer productivity and software quality
Mentor and coach engineers while fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement
Help evolve platform capabilities that enable dynamic and personalized customer experiences globally

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of professional software development experience in designing, building, scaling, and maintaining large-scale, highly performant, and resilient production services.
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related technical subject area or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience in microservices architecture, domain driven design, and RESTful and GraphQL API's.
Experience building high-scale microservices on AWS (preferred), GCP, or other public cloud substrates.
Experience with AWS components like API Gateway, Lambdas, SNS, SQS, ElastiCache, AppSync etc and NoSQL databases like DynamoDB, Graph databases (Neo4j, Neptune, etc), and Data streams (Kafka, Kinesis, etc)
Experience developing back-end software using JavaScript or TypeScript and runtimes like Node.js (preferred)
Experience with web security, including JWT lifecycle management, CORS, CSP, and XSS prevention.
AI fluency and Proven experience using AI coding assistants (Cursor, Windsurf , Codex etc) to accelerate the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)
Experience in test-driven development and testing frameworks like Jest, Playwright, etc.
Experience in Service orchestration using tools like Terraform (preferred).
Experience in Consumer/B2C identity package implementations such as Okta /Auth0 and Identity protocols like OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect etc (preferred).
Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

microservices architecturedomain driven designRESTful APIsGraphQL APIsAWSGCPJavaScriptTypeScriptNode.jstest-driven development

Soft Skills

mentoringcoachingcollaborationcontinuous improvementcommunication

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer scienceMaster’s degree in computer science