Applications will be accepted until 02/27/2026.
Description
This Lead Engineer role will lead Trailblazer Identity, a B2C identity platform within Salesforce’s Digital Marketing Technology group, responsible for the innovation of our Salesforce digital experiences globally, leveraging best-in-class technology and systems.
This role encompasses defining and overseeing architecture, design, implementation, and testing strategies, ensuring technical excellence, long-term scalability, and high-quality product delivery across the digital experience.
You will be working with a group of world-class engineers to build the breakthrough features our customers will love and adopt while keeping our trusted platform stable and scalable.
Key Responsibilities
Establish the technical vision and unlock best-in-class capabilities in the marketing technology ecosystem
Serve as the technical leader, providing solution guidance, influencing technical decisions across multiple teams and the broader organization, while ensuring optimal business outcomes.
Proactively partner with Product and Engineering leadership to define, shape, and champion the technical aspects of product roadmaps to align with business goals and architectural vision.
Drive the design and architecture of complex, high-impact technical solutions that translate business requirements into robust, scalable, reliable, and secure systems, while leveraging of Salesforce product suite.
Innovate and invent the future of Agile and DevOps, drive continuous improvement with a focus on process, controls, scalability, and maturity.
Continuously evaluate, assess, and advocate for the adoption of cutting-edge tools and technologies that drive significant improvements in engineering efficiency, productivity, and future-proofing.
Elevate the overall technical strength of the engineering organization by actively coaching, mentoring, and setting a high bar for technical excellence, architecture, and engineering best practices.
Cultivate and thrive in a culture of ownership, high-quality delivery, and continuous innovation.
Requirements:
8+ years of professional software development experience in designing, building, scaling, and maintaining large-scale, highly performant, and resilient production services.
Proven experience with Identity package implementations (e.g., Okta, Auth0) and expert-level knowledge of Identity protocols (OIDC, SAML) and Authorization frameworks (OAuth 2.0), including security extensions like PKCE
Deep understanding of web security fundamentals, including JWT lifecycle management, CORS, CSP, and XSS prevention
Experience developing back-end software, preferably including JavaScript or TypeScript and runtimes like Node.js
Experience in building scalable applications based on micro-service architecture in public cloud infrastructure AWS (preferred), GCP, or other public cloud substrates.
Experience in serverless components like API Gateway, Lambdas, SNS, SQS, ElastiCache, AppSync etc)
Experience with NoSQL databases - DynamoDB, Graph databases (Neo4j, Neptune, etc), Web Services (REST, GraphQL) & Data streams (Kafka, Kinesis, etc).
A related technical degree required.
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