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Backend Software Development Engineer - Mid​/Senior​/Lead​/Principal

Job in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, 94199, USA
Listing for: Salesforce
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-01-15
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Backend Developer, Cloud Engineer - Software, Software Engineer, DevOps
Job Description & How to Apply Below

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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.

Note:

By applying to the Software Backend Development posting, recruiters and hiring managers across the organization hiring for Backend Software Engineers will review your resume. Our goal is for you to apply once and have your resume reviewed by multiple hiring teams. Positions available at all levels:
Mid Level, Senior, Lead and Principal.

Salesforce has opportunities for experienced software developers who want their lines of code to have significant and measurable positive impact for users, the company's bottom line, and the industry. You will be working with a group of world-class engineers to build the breakthrough features our customers will love, adopt, and use while keeping our trusted CRM platform stable and scalable. The software engineer role at Salesforce encompasses architecture, design, implementation, and testing to ensure we build products right and release them with high quality.

We pride ourselves on writing high quality, maintainable code that strengthens the stability of the product and makes our lives easier. We embrace the hybrid model and celebrate the individual strengths of each team member while cultivating everyone on the team to grow into the best version of themselves. We believe that autonomous teams with the freedom to make decisions will empower the individuals, the product, the company, and the customers they serve to thrive.

Your

Impact
  • Backend application development for Marketing/Commerce/Sales/Big Data/Service/Einstein/Mule Soft/Platform/Industries Clouds/Slack and Heroku
  • Design, implement, and tune robust APIs and API framework related features that perform and scale in a multi-tenant environment.
  • Experience handling large data sets in the cloud (e.g. GCP, AWS, Alibaba and/or Azure platforms)
  • Integration with internal/external systems
  • Test driven development practices as well as CI/CD tools and its usage
  • For Big Data roles:
    Working with Phoenix, HBase, Map Reduce, Yarn, Kafka, Spark, Hive, Presto, or equivalent large-scale distributed systems technologies on a modern containerized deployment stack
Required Skills
  • A related technical degree required
  • 3+ years backend software development experience
  • Deep knowledge of object oriented programming languages:
    Java, C++, Go, C#, Ruby, Scala, Python, Node.

    JS, or Java Script
  • Broad knowledge of web standards relating to APIs such as REST, SOAP, XML, WSDL, HTTP, JSON, etc.
  • Experience with Spring, gRPC, REST and the HTTP protocol
  • Experience with Agile development methodology
  • Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to address complex problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available
  • Office-Flex: work in-person three days per week; or 10 days per quarter for some engineering teams.
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Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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