Software Engineering Architect

About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI + Data + CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

• Note this is a local to San Francisco opportunity with hybrid in-office expectations.

We are seeking a Software Architect to join our Industries Cloud at Salesforce. If you’re obsessed with customer success, if you are fired up by the power of the Salesforce Platform, if you want to be part of the next Billion dollar cloud and if you are looking to work with world-class engineers and leaders, this is the job for you!

Salesforce Industries Cloud is the fastest growing cloud that empowers financial services & insurance companies, health care organizations, retailers, manufacturers, and government agencies to engage with their customers in a whole new way.

The candidate must have the technical prowess to write high-performing, scalable code, and well-designed, architected, and extensible features and platform functionality for internal and external consumption (Partners, ISVs). The candidate has a deep interest and ideally experience in broad software platforms, including platform information architecture, information flow, automation, and optimization to influence and drive product vision and roadmap. The candidate embodies a can-do approach backed by accomplishments. In addition, this candidate needs to be passionate about new cool technologies and stay current with a broad range of industry trends and developments.

Responsibilities and Impacts

• Deliver a compelling technical strategy.
• Identify and understand the development practices and infrastructure that make Salesforce successful.
• Partner with peers across Industries Cloud and Salesforce R&D in aligning and building out a unified long-term plan.
• Drive execution of long-term plan taking into account performance, scalability, and usability of your solutions.
• Hands-on and lead by example by contributing high-quality, production code that powers critical pieces of our platform, services, and products.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of experience working on external, customer-facing products and platforms.
• 12+ years of software development experience, and 2+ years in an Architect role.
• Expertise in relational database systems and languages (Oracle, Postgres, SQL) and data modeling, sync/integration, and pipelines at scale.
• Extensive knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming languages.
• Extensive experience building highly scalable, performant multi-tenant web applications and platforms.
• Experience building ML/AI models, pipelines, and applications.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to drive consensus within the organization and company.
• Results-oriented, adaptable, and comfortable dealing with ambiguity.
• Collaborative, team-oriented, and mentorship.
• Ability to work in a distributed and fast-paced environment.
• Masters Degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Desired Skills

• Experience with the Salesforce Platform Packaging (1GP and 2GP), SFDX, Apex, Lightning, Communities.
• Salesforce Certified in Administrator, Solutions Architect, Technical Architect or equivalent Salesforce experience.

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For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $210,800 to $355,900.

Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: Salesforce Benefits .