Lead Software Engineer – Platform Services

Salesforce

full-time

Posted on: 10/10/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California, Illinois, New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $200,800 - $276,100 per year

Senior

ApacheAWSCloudDynamoDBETLGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLJavaScriptKafkaMicroservicesNeo4jNode.jsNoSQLPythonSparkTypeScript

About the role

Establish the technical vision and unlock best-in-class capabilities in the marketing technology ecosystem
Serve as the technical leader, providing solution guidance, influencing technical decisions across multiple teams and the broader organization, while ensuring optimal business outcomes.
Proactively partner with Product and Engineering leadership to define, shape, and champion the technical aspects of product roadmaps to align with business goals and architectural vision.
Drive the design and architecture of complex, high-impact technical solutions that translate business requirements into robust, scalable, reliable, and secure systems, while leveraging of Salesforce product suite.
Innovate and invent the future of Agile and DevOps, drive continuous improvement with a focus on process, controls, scalability, and maturity.
Continuously evaluate, assess, and advocate for the adoption of cutting-edge tools and technologies that drive significant improvements in engineering efficiency, productivity, and future-proofing.
Elevate the overall technical strength of the engineering organization by actively coaching, mentoring, and setting a high bar for technical excellence, architecture, and engineering best practices.
Cultivate and thrive in a culture of ownership, high-quality delivery, and continuous innovation.

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 API's.
Experience building high-scale microservices on AWS (preferred), GCP, or other public cloud substrates.
Experience in building scalable applications based on micro-service architecture in public cloud infrastructure (AWS components like API Gateway, Lambdas, SNS, SQS, ElastiCache, AppSync etc)
Experience with NoSQL databases - DynamoDB, Graph databases (Neo4j, Neptune, etc), Web Services (REST, GraphQL) & Data streams (Kafka, Kinesis, etc)
Experience developing back-end software, preferably including JavaScript or TypeScript and runtimes like Node.js
Experience in designing and managing complex, large-scale data pipelines, including data modeling and schema design, for efficient data processing and transformation.
Experience with scripting languages such as Python for data manipulation and automation.
Experience in designing, building, and maintaining Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) pipelines using AWS Glue or Apache Spark

Benefits

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software developmentmicroservices architecturedomain driven designRESTful APIsAWSGCPNoSQL databasesJavaScriptTypeScriptETL pipelines

technical leadershipsolution guidancecoachingmentoringcontinuous improvementinnovationcollaborationownershiphigh-quality deliverytechnical excellence

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