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Senior Software Engineer

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Software Engineering
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Jan 16, 2026

Description

As a Senior Member of Technical Staff (SMTS) on the Data Cloud One (DC1) team, you will play a pivotal role in advancing Salesforce’s Data Cloud and Data 360 vision. You will design and scale a core platform that enables customers to work with a unified view of data across multiple Salesforce orgs.

This role sits at the intersection of data engineering, platform architecture, and cross-cloud integration, driving innovations that power intelligent customer experiences, analytics, and AI-driven insights across Salesforce products. You will build and operate high-scale, multi-org distributed systems that enable secure cross-org data access, governance, and global user management.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and deliver scalable multi-organization orchestration solutions that power Data Cloud One.
  • Work with large-scale distributed systems, designing and managing robust data and metadata models.
  • Partner closely with Product Managers, Architects, and Data Scientists to translate customer needs into production-ready software.
  • Own and evolve fully orchestrated APIs that integrate with the Salesforce AI Platform.
  • Define reusable architectural patterns, guardrails, and best practices to improve engineering efficiency, data quality, and system reliability.
  • Contribute to long-range technical planning and help drive microservices architectures that support machine learning and AI workloads.
  • Design, develop, debug, and operate resilient distributed services running across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers.
  • Participate in the team’s on-call rotation, diagnosing and resolving complex production issues to maintain high availability.
  • Establish and enforce processes that ensure high engineering quality and operational excellence.
  • Exhibit a customer-first mindset, taking accountability for technical decisions and the outcomes delivered by the team.

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, building and operating production systems at scale.
  • Strong programming skills in Java.
  • Experience working with distributed systems and microservices-based architectures.
  • Hands-on experience with performance measurement, evaluation, and optimization.
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, service deployment, and operational best practices.
  • Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, and troubleshooting complex production issues.
  • Proven ability to work cross-functionally, articulating technical trade-offs and influencing partner teams.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex technical concepts and drive impact across engineering teams.
  • Passion for continuous improvement, learning new technologies, and raising the engineering bar.
  • Ability to adapt to changing priorities, technologies, and problem spaces.
  • A related technical degree required.

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