Lead Software Engineer

The Employee Success & Finance Platform team builds and maintains the integration backbone that connects Salesforce's most sensitive enterprise systems - HR, payroll, ERP, and Finance. As the Lead Software Engineer on this team, you'll set the technical direction for how data moves securely, accurately, and resiliently across our SaaS ecosystem.

This is a high-impact role for an engineer who thinks in platforms, not just features - someone who cares deeply about data integrity, observability, and building systems that scale with the business. You'll partner directly with HR and Finance leadership to shape the technical roadmap, and you'll lead a team that takes ownership of engineering quality from architecture to production. What You'll Do

• Define the integration architecture for complex, high-stakes data flows between HR, ERP, and third-party SaaS providers - designing for reliability, auditability, and scale.
• Build and maintain validation frameworks that ensure "source of truth" data stays consistent as it moves across enterprise systems, with automated reconciliation to catch failures before the business does.
• Drive observability across the platform by implementing comprehensive telemetry (logs, metrics, traces) so the team has full visibility into system health at all times.
• Lead and mentor a platform engineering team, setting standards for code quality, design patterns, and technical documentation - and fostering a culture of Engineering Excellence.
• Own the DevOps and testing strategy, including CI/CD pipelines, unit/integration/E2E test coverage, and a proactive approach to technical debt.
• Translate business requirements into technical roadmaps in close partnership with HR and Finance stakeholders, ensuring engineering decisions are grounded in real business impact.
• Design for agentic systems - build the tooling and guardrails needed for autonomous agents to safely navigate sensitive financial and HR data, including payroll adjustments and budget reconciliation workflows.
• Ensure GenAI data readiness by making HR policies and financial records accessible to agents while maintaining strict PII/SPII masking and data sovereignty standards.

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years in a technical lead, staff, or equivalent senior scope role
• Deep experience designing and building SaaS-to-SaaS integrations, including custom middleware and APIs that bridge legacy and modern enterprise systems
• Demonstrated track record of handling high-stakes data - Finance and HR experience especially valued, where data accuracy is non-negotiable
• Strong observability mindset: you instrument everything and treat monitoring as part of the definition of done
• Platform-oriented thinking: you build for reusability, documentation, and the productivity of the broader engineering org
• Working knowledge of SOX compliance and PII/SPII data classification
• Strong communication skills - you can translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and build alignment across teams
• A related technical degree required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Workday (Extend, Orchestration, Integration Studio, or Studio)
• Background in FinTech or a highly regulated industry where audit trails and compliance are core to the engineering process
• Hands-on experience building or operating production-grade AI/ML or agentic systems, with attention to data cleanliness, prompt reliability, and deterministic fallbacks

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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.

At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $172,500 - $260,100 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $207,800 - $285,800 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.

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