Principal Software Engineer - Pmts

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA

Salesforce is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to architect, design, implement, and deliver highly scalable AI products. This role involves defining software architecture, driving long-term design strategies, and collaborating with cross-functional teams including Data Scientists and ML Engineers. The engineer will be responsible for building AI Apps and Platforms, ensuring scalability, fault tolerance, and maintainability, and will also contribute to product strategy and technical feasibility analysis.

What you'd actually do

  1. Architect, design, implement, test and deliver highly scalable AI products into the hands of customers
  2. Be accountable for defining and driving software architecture and enterprise capabilities (scalability, fault tolerance, extensibility, maintainability, etc.)
  3. Independently design sophisticated software systems for high-end solutions, while working in a consultative fashion with other senior engineers and architects in AI Cloud and across the company
  4. Determine overall architectural principles, frameworks, and standards to craft vision and roadmaps
  5. Analyze and provide feedback on product strategy and technical feasibility

Skills

Required

  • 12+ years of experience in building highly scalable Software-as-a-Service applications/ platform
  • Proven ability to independently craft and deliver large sophisticated projects
  • Proven ability to mentor team members to support their understanding and growth of software engineering architecture concepts and aid in their technical development
  • Experience building technical architectures that address complex performance issues
  • Deep knowledge of object oriented programming and experience with at least one object oriented programming language, preferably Java
  • High proficiency in at least one high-level programming language and web framework (NodeJS, Express, Hapi, etc.)
  • Proven understanding of web technologies, such as JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, XML, JavaScript, JSON, and/or Ajax
  • Data model design, database technologies (RDBMS & NoSQL), and languages such as SQL and PL/SQL
  • Experience delivering or partnering with teams that ship AI products
  • Experience in automated testing including unit and functional testing using Java, JUnit, JSUnit, Selenium
  • Prior experience of building highly scalable AI Platforms or applications
  • Demonstrated ability to drive long-term design strategies that span multiple complex projects
  • Experience delivering technical reports and presentations to customers and at industry events
  • Demonstrated track record of cultivating strong working relationships and driving collaboration across multiple technical and business teams to resolve critical issues
  • Experience with the full software lifecycle in highly agile and ambiguous environments
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Nice to have

  • Solid experience in API development, API lifecycle management and/or client SDKs development
  • Experience with machine learning or cloud technology platforms like AWS sagemaker, terraform, spinnaker, EKS, GKE
  • Experience with AI/ML and Data science, including Predictive and Generative AI
  • Experience with data engineering, data pipelines or distributed systems
  • Experience with Agile development methodologies, pair programming, continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD)
  • Familiarity with Salesforce APIs and technologies
  • Ability to support/resolve production customer escalations with excellent debugging and problem solving skills

What the JD emphasized

  • building highly scalable Software-as-a-Service applications/ platform
  • Proven ability to independently craft and deliver large sophisticated projects
  • Experience building technical architectures that address complex performance issues
  • Prior experience of building highly scalable AI Platforms or applications
  • Demonstrated ability to drive long-term design strategies that span multiple complex projects
  • Demonstrated track record of cultivating strong working relationships and driving collaboration across multiple technical and business teams to resolve critical issues

Other signals

  • AI products
  • AI Apps
  • AI Platforms
  • AI CRM