Senior/Lead/Principal Software Engineer, Salesforce

Generative AI

$137.1-372.9k

Python
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area
Salesforce

World's leading CRM provider

Be an early applicant

Salesforce

World's leading CRM provider

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsLead generationAnalyticsCloud ComputingSales

Be an early applicant

$137.1-372.9k

Python
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsLead generationAnalyticsCloud ComputingSales

Company mission

To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.

Role

Who you are

  • The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Python, algorithm design, large-scale backend development, and experience in machine learning, with a particular focus on Generative AI technologies
  • Strong Python Programming Expertise: Proficiency in Python, with extensive experience in algorithm design and the ability to evaluate different algorithmic approaches for optimal performance
  • Algorithm & Data Structures: Strong foundation in algorithm design and data structures, with an ability to defend choices, articulate design decisions, and remain open to alternative approaches
  • Code Quality & Refactoring: A keen sense of code quality and a commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and modular code. Experience refactoring existing codebases to improve modularity and performance
  • Backend System Development: Experience building large-scale backend systems with a focus on performance, scalability, and low latency. Familiarity with performance optimization techniques such as parallel and stream processing, as well as asynchronous I/O
  • Generative AI Experience (Preferred): Experience with Generative AI technologies, including RAG systems, Agentic workflows, or open-source frameworks such as LangChain and LlamaIndex, is a strong plus

What the job involves

  • Salesforce is seeking a passionated and highly skilled Software Engineer to join our team in developing an advanced Generative AI platform
  • Own and drive development tasks such as coding and feature verifications as part of release commitments
  • Proactive in highlighting issues and resolving them as quickly as possible
  • Daily participation in stand-ups
  • Participating in self coordinating as part of the delivery team to self coordinate
  • Providing technical guidance to colleagues
  • Vocally advocating for technical excellence and collaborating to help the team make good decisions
  • Translating architecture into technical planning and execution
  • Algorithm Development and Prototyping: Develop components of the platform’s Generative AI capabilities, with a focus on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, Agentic workflows, and other state-of-the-art generative techniques. Design and implement advanced algorithms to enable innovative AI features in the platform. Rapidly build prototypes to experiment with new algorithms, techniques, and open-source technologies
  • System Design and Performance Optimization: Build and optimize large-scale backend systems, taking throughput and latency into account. Apply performance optimization techniques, including parallel processing, stream processing, and asynchronous I/O to improve the efficiency and scalability of the platform
  • Code Review and Refactoring: Write clean, modular, and maintainable code. Read and digest existing codebases, perform code reviews, and refactor code to improve modularity, performance, and maintainability
  • Implement Evaluation and Diagnostics tools: Implement evaluation, logging, and tracing mechanisms, such as the Atlas-Trust foundation, to facilitate debugging, diagnostics, and performance tracking of the platform
  • Demo Development: Develop demos to showcase new features and the latest product innovations to collaborators and potential customers

Our take

Salesforce is a global cloud computing company, best known for its on-demand, comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The company was launched to mitigate the doubts that business owners felt regarding third party companies holding their data.

By providing essential, customer-oriented CRM software, Salesforce places itself at the heart of digitised businesses. Furthermore, by building out its AI capabilities, the company removes the complexity of AI, enabling any business to deliver smarter, personalised and more predictive customer experiences.

Due to the continued innovation offered by the company, over 150,000 companies, both big and small, are growing their business with Salesforce today. Despite a tumultuous 2023 filled with activist investors, a boardroom shake-up and the unprecedented step-down of Co-CEO Bret Taylor, Salesforce continues to close several acquisition deals and managed to drive up its stock value by 96% from the end of 2022 to 2023.

Steph headshot

Steph

Company Specialist

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-8% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Jun 2001

$46.9m

SERIES D

Nov 1999

$13.2m

SERIES C

Total funding: $64.5m

Company benefits

  • With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year

Company values

  • Trust - We earn the trust of our customers, employees, and extended family through transparency, security, compliance, privacy, and performance. And we deliver the industry’s most trusted infrastructure
  • Customer Success - So we champion them to achieve extraordinary things. We innovate and expand our business offerings to provide all our stakeholders with new avenues to achieve ever greater success
  • Innovation - Our customers’ input helps us develop products that best serve their business needs. Providing continual technology releases and new initiatives gives our customers a competitive advantage
  • Equality - We believe everyone should be seen, heard, valued, and empowered to succeed. Hearing diverse perspectives fuels innovation, deepens connections between people, and makes us a better company
  • Sustainability – We are committed to bringing the full power of Salesforce to accelerate the world’s journey to net zero

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Marc Benioff

(Chair & CEO)

Previously Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation for 13 years.

Previously worked as a Software Engineer for over six years. Harris also co-founded Left Coast Software.


People progressing

Joined as Recruiting Director - Futureforce University Recruiting, EMEA, and was promoted to Senior Director - EMEA & LATAM Recruiting, Futureforce after 3 years, and then again to Senior Director - Recruiting after 2 years. Now serve as COO - Employee Success EMEA.

Salary benchmarks

We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.

Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Salesforce

  • Our goals:
  • 50% of our U.S. employees will be made up of underrepresented groups (Women, Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Multiracial, LGBTQ+ employees, People with Disabilities, and Veterans) by 2023
  • Double the U.S. representation of Black leaders (VP+) and increase our representation of underrepresented minority (Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Multiracial) leaders by 50% by 2023
  • 50% increase our U.S. representation of underrepresented minority (Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Multiracial) employees by 50% by 2023
  • We’ve met our representation goal nearly a full year early – today, 50.7% of our U.S. employees are members of underrepresented groups

Share this job

View 156 more jobs at Salesforce