Software Engineering PMTS

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Software Engineering

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About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword - it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

The Salesforce Database Engineering team has the DNA of building highly scalable, mission critical enterprise products. As part of building our team, we are looking for engineers and leaders who are passionate about working on the RDBMS technology of massive scale and one that thrives with continuous innovation. The team is responsible for innovating and maintaining a large scale distributed systems engineering platform that ships hundreds of features to production for tens of millions of users across all industries every day. Our users count on our platform to be highly reliable, lightning fast, supremely secure, and to preserve all of their customizations and integrations every time we ship. You will need deep experience with concurrency, large scale systems, proficiency with solving real-world data management challenges, a strong understanding of how to craft solutions that are highly available, and a proven ability to design, develop, and optimize the core back-end systems.

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Salesforce database team, you will be responsible for:

• Designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers
• Own delivery of technical outcomes on all project related issues Help with backlog planning, cross-team dependency planning and drive the team to execute on the plan.
• Demonstrate engineering expertise by working closely with architects, and engineering managers to execute on the strategy for your feature areas, help plan the backlogs, and enable your Scrum team to execute that roadmap flawlessly
• Collaborate with architect and product owner to own and drive the design and development of the features for high quality
• Owning and resolving Customer issues with utmost urgency and adhering to customer trust
• Drive cross team collaborative work environment with other Scrum teams and engineering managers that fosters autonomy, innovation, learning, respect and transparency while holding a high bar for delivery
• Resolving complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resiliency for Tier0 services supported on public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba

Required Skills:

• BS/MS in Computer Science
• Excellent communication skills and problem-solving skills
• Experience with highly-scalable and highly-available distributed systems.
• Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a critical service
• Prior experience with using Kubernetes to build and operate clusters is a must
• Prior experience with CI/CD, Infra-as-a-Code is a mustExperience in Java development.
• 15+ years in software development which includes experience in varying aspects of development cycle, including design, coding

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you'll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we'll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future - but to redefine what's possible - for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $184,000 to $306,600.

For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $200,800 to $334,600.

Client-provided location(s): Seattle, WA, San Francisco, CA

Job ID: Salesforce-JR313745

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-10-28T20:16:54