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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Lead Software Engineer - Platform Services - **Company:** Salesforce.com, Inc. - **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $172,500.0 - $260,100.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Engineering, Software Quality, Continuous Integration, Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (Ajax Programming), Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), DevOps, Distributed Systems, Amazon DynamoDB, Graph Database, Neo4j, Node.Js, NoSQL, OAuth, Systems Development Life Cycle, Openid Connect, Coupa Supplier Portal, Salesforce.Com, Web Application Security, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Software Engineering, Data Streaming, TypeScript, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Okta, Amazon ElastiCache, AWS Lambda, AWS AppSync, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Backend, Build Management, Information Technology, Playwright, Apache Kafka, Graphql, Api Gateway, Restful APIs, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform, Domain Driven Design, Serverless Computing, Microservices - **Published:** May 16, 2026 - **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/career/16933707/Lead-Software-Engineer-Platform-Services-Washington-Seattle ## About the Role * Strong technical leader with deep experience building and scaling distributed systems * Hands-on engineer passionate about solving complex platform and architecture challenges * Experience working within modern digital, marketing technology, or customer identity ecosystems * Strong collaborator who can influence technical direction across organizations * Engineer who effectively leverages AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and accelerate software delivery * Passion for building scalable, reliable, and secure customer-facing systems, * 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 and GraphQL API's. * Experience building high-scale microservices on AWS (preferred), GCP, or other public cloud substrates. * Experience with AWS components like API Gateway, Lambdas, SNS, SQS, ElastiCache, AppSync etc and NoSQL databases like DynamoDB, Graph databases (Neo4j, Neptune, etc), and Data streams (Kafka, Kinesis, etc) * Experience developing back-end software using JavaScript or TypeScript and runtimes like Node.js (preferred) * Experience with web security, including JWT lifecycle management, CORS, CSP, and XSS prevention. * AI fluency and Proven experience using AI coding assistants (Cursor, Windsurf , Codex etc) to accelerate the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) * Experience in test-driven development and testing frameworks like Jest, Playwright, etc. * Experience in Service orchestration using tools like Terraform (preferred). * Experience in Consumer/B2C identity package implementations such as Okta /Auth0 and Identity protocols like OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect etc (preferred). * Strong verbal and written communication skills. ## Description This role sits within the Platform Services team in Salesforce's Digital Marketing Technology organization. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will provide hands-on technical leadership across architecture, platform innovation, and large-scale distributed systems. You'll partner closely with engineering, product, architecture, and platform teams to design and build scalable cloud-native services that power Salesforce's global digital ecosystem. This is a highly collaborative individual contributor role focused on solving complex technical challenges while mentoring engineers and elevating engineering standards across teams. 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