Mid- Level Backend Engineer
Salesforce Inc.
San Francisco, United States of America
yesterday
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
IntermediateJob location
Remote
San Francisco, United States of America
Tech stack
Java
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Azure
Big Data
C Sharp (Programming Language)
C++
Software as a Service
Relational Databases
Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements)
Database Queries
Distributed Systems
Elasticsearch
Python
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Node.js
Object-Oriented Software Development
Software Tools
Scala
Software Organization
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
GitHub Copilot
Large Language Models
Prompt Engineering
Generative AI
Backend
Event Driven Architecture
Kubernetes
Kafka
Non-relational Database
Video Streaming
Terraform
Docker
Go
Job description
We act as trusted advisors. 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.
Requirements
- 3+ years of development experience as a software engineer.
- Deep knowledge of object-oriented programming and other scripting languages: Java, Python, Scala C#, Go, Node.JS and C++.
- Strong SQL skills and experience with relational and non-relational databases e.g. (Postgress/Trino/redshift/Mongo).
- Experience with developing SAAS products over public cloud infrastructure - AWS/Azure/GCP.
- Proven experience designing and developing distributed systems at scale.
- Proficiency in queues, locks, scheduling, event-driven architecture, and workload distribution, along with a deep understanding of relational database and non-relational databases.
- A demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering - using AI to move faster, build fluency across the stack, and contribute well beyond your core specialty.
- Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, etc.) in development workflows.
- Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to write precise, structured prompts and cultivate the system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production-ready.
- A deeper understanding of software development best practices and demonstrate leadership skills.
- Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)
Desired Skills
- Technical expertise in Generative AI, particularly with RAG systems and Agentic workflows that use large language models.
- Experience with Big-Data/ML and S3
- Hands-on experience with Streaming technologies like Kafka
- Experience with Elastic Search
- Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker
- Experience working in a high-paced and rapidly growing multinational organization
Benefits & conditions
- Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow by pushing the boundaries of AI development tools to deliver secure, optimized, and high-quality code.
- Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale.
- Contribute to building and maintaining the shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably.
- Critically evaluate code (human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance.
- Build new and exciting components in an ever-growing and evolving market technology to provide scale and efficiency.
- Develop high-quality, production-ready code that can be used by millions of users of our cloud platform.
- Make design decisions on the basis of performance, scalability, and future expansion.
- Work in a Hybrid Engineering model and contribute to all phases of SDLC including design, implementation, code reviews, automation, and testing of the features.
- Build efficient components/algorithms on a microservice multi-tenant SaaS cloud environment
- Code review, mentoring junior engineers, and providing technical guidance to the team (depending on the seniority level)
About the company
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 Software Engineers will review your resume. Our goal is for you to apply once and have your resume reviewed by multiple hiring teams.
Salesforce has immediate opportunities for 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 encouraging 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.