Senior Staff Engineer, API Platform (det)

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA +4

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer for their API Platform team. This role involves designing and developing scalable, robust enterprise solutions to enable rapid application delivery across the organization. The engineer will promote an API-first methodology, drive parallel feature development, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. A key aspect is leveraging AI tools to accelerate design, development, testing, and documentation, while also ensuring quality controls and staying updated with industry trends. Experience with AWS infrastructure, IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and contract-first development is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, develop, and deliver scalable and robust, foundational enterprise solutions that scale across multiple product offerings to enable rapid application delivery across the development organization.
  2. Establish and promote an API-first methodology across cross-functional teams to ensure consistency and quality in our API offerings.
  3. Drive the capability for parallel feature development and ensure incremental delivery of software.
  4. Collaborate on a team of engineers, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to other teams and team members.
  5. Effectively leverage AI tools on a daily basis to accelerate the design, development, testing, and documentation of our team’s applications and components.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on enterprise solutions.
  • Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages (Java, Python, or JavaScript preferred).
  • Experience designing the AWS infrastructure to run common web services (VPC, Lambda, ECS, RDS, API Gateway).
  • Proficiency creating Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to deploy public cloud resources.
  • Experience working with automated CI/CD DevOps pipelines for application testing, release management, and deployment (GitHub Actions or GitLab pipelines preferred)
  • Experience using AI coding tools to accelerate technical delivery while maintaining strong quality controls.
  • Proven track record of delivering high-quality software solutions in a fast-paced environment.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically and creatively.
  • Strong communication,collaboration, and documentation skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment.
  • Experience in developing in a contract-first environment.
  • Proven ability to use a data-driven approach to continuous improvement and decision-making.

Nice to have

  • Experience with Salesforce technologies and platforms.
  • Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns and best practices.
  • AWS Certifications.
  • Experience with event-driven architecture and technologies that interface with backend consumers (e.g. AWS Kinesis/SNS/SQS/EventBridge).
  • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Experience developing CI/CD pipelines and processes.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI tools on a daily basis to accelerate the design, development, testing, and documentation
  • Experience using AI coding tools to accelerate technical delivery while maintaining strong quality controls.