About the role

Role Overview

Join Salesforce as a Software Engineering Architect in a senior, hands-on position. You will lead the design and development of next-generation data platforms that power Salesforce products, translating platform strategy into reliable, maintainable software.

Responsibilities

Architect and design new data platforms supporting current and future product capabilities, with emphasis on scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
Collaborate with product, engineering, data, infrastructure, and leadership teams to align architecture with business goals.
Define technical foundations for new product data platforms and establish engineering patterns and platform standards across teams.
Lead technical design reviews and drive sound long-term engineering decisions, communicating architectural tradeoffs.
Contribute directly to core platform components (hands-on engineering).

Requirements

15+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial architecture responsibility.
Deep experience with Linux, systems engineering, performance tuning, and production operations.
Proven ability to design and build distributed, low-latency, high-throughput, highly available systems in production.
Strong database and data platform knowledge: storage systems, data modeling, indexing, query patterns, and data lifecycle design.
Experience with data platforms and/or modern backend infrastructure such as:
- Real-time systems, event-driven architectures, and/or large-scale backend infrastructure
- Building new data platforms from the ground up
Expert-level programming experience in Java (or similar production-grade backend languages).
Strong communication skills to influence design and mentor across teams.

Nice-to-Haves / Additional Strengths

Experience modernizing legacy systems into scalable product platforms.
Background with event-driven microservices, streaming systems, message brokers, and distributed processing frameworks.
Experience with machine learning platforms / Generative AI systems / advanced data-intensive products.
Experience with open source contributions or leadership.
Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and observability (monitoring, distributed tracing).
Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing architecture globally.

About Salesforce

Salesforce is a leading AI CRM company building cloud-based customer relationship management software. The company develops products that connect data, automation, and intelligence for sales, service, and marketing teams, with a strong focus on large-scale data and platform engineering.