Lead Software Engineer - Platform Services
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Job Category
Software Engineering
Job Details
About Salesforce
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Salesforce is transforming the way prospects, customers, and Trailblazers interact with the company on the web. We are unifying the digital experience of online visitors across corporate brand websites and our Trailblazer ecosystem on a shared digital platform. The result will be dynamic and personalized based on a visitor's role, industry, and location. It will also be a showcase of Salesforce products.
Role Scope
Lead Engineer role is part of the Platform Services team within Salesforce's Digital Marketing Technology group, responsible for the innovation of our Salesforce digital experiences globally, leveraging best-in-class technology and systems.
This role encompasses defining and overseeing architecture, design, implementation, and testing strategies, ensuring technical excellence, long-term scalability, and high-quality product delivery across the digital experience. You will be working with a group of world-class engineers to build the breakthrough features our customers will love and adopt while keeping our trusted platform stable and scalable.
The successful candidate will have:-
- Deep and proven experience in the marketing technologies domain, with a strong focus on experimentation domain or B2C Identity Domain and a track record of delivering transformative solutions across complex platform ecosystems
- Identity Domain : Experience in Consumer/B2C identity package implementations, preferably Okta /Auth0 and Identity protocols like OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect etc
- Experimentation Domain: Experience in building solutions for experimentation for A/B testing, Multi-variate testing etc
- Expertise in building AI-based computing architectures and scalable stacks.
Key Responsibilities
- 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.
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Qualifications
- 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
Unleash Your Potential
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For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $184,000 to $253,000.
For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $200,800 to $276,100.
Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
- Health Insurance
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- FSA
- FSA With Employer Contribution
- HSA
- HSA With Employer Contribution
- Fitness Subsidies
- On-Site Gym
- Mental Health Benefits
Parental Benefits
- Adoption Leave
- Return-to-Work Program
- Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
- Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Adoption Assistance Program
- Family Support Resources
Work Flexibility
- Flexible Work Hours
- Remote Work Opportunities
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
Office Life and Perks
- Casual Dress
- Happy Hours
- Snacks
- Some Meals Provided
- Company Outings
Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Personal/Sick Days
- Leave of Absence
- Sabbatical
- Volunteer Time Off
Financial and Retirement
- 401(K)
- 401(K) With Company Matching
- Company Equity
- Stock Purchase Program
- Performance Bonus
- Relocation Assistance
- Financial Counseling
Professional Development
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Learning and Development Stipend
- Promote From Within
- Mentor Program
- Shadowing Opportunities
- Access to Online Courses
- Lunch and Learns
- Internship Program
- Leadership Training Program
- Professional Coaching
- Work Visa Sponsorship
Diversity and Inclusion
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
- Unconscious Bias Training
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
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