Backend Software Development Engineer - Mid/Senior/Lead/Principal

Salesforce

Remote Hybrid

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Work type: Remote
Location: San Francisco, CA
Salary: $117,200–$313,700 / yr
Posted: 17 days ago

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This role $215k

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Salesforce is the world''s leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform, offering cloud-based software for sales, service, marketing, analytics, and application development. Industry: Enterprise Software & Cloud Computing

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TL;DR · Backend Software Development Engineer - Mid/Senior/Lead/Principal

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Join Salesforce as a Backend Software Engineer where you will contribute to building robust APIs and features that scale in multi-tenant environments across various clouds like Marketing, Commerce, Sales, Big Data, Service, Einstein, MuleSoft, Platform, Industries Clouds, Slack, and Heroku. Your daily tasks include designing, implementing, and tuning APIs using modern engineering practices, ensuring high-quality code through test-driven development and CI/CD tools. You will work with large data sets in the cloud, integrate systems internally and externally, and leverage AI development tools to enhance your workflow. Required skills encompass 3+ years of backend experience, proficiency in object-oriented languages like Java, C++, Go, Python, or JavaScript, knowledge of web standards such as REST, SOAP, XML, JSON, and familiarity with Spring, gRPC, and Agile methodologies.

Skills

Java Python Go Node.js Spring gRPC REST HTTP JSON Agile AWS GCP Alibaba Cloud Azure Terraform Docker Kubernetes CI/CD HBase Spark Presto MapReduce Yarn Kafka

What you'll do

Design and implement robust APIs and API framework features that scale in multi-tenant environments.
Develop backend applications for various Salesforce clouds using modern engineering practices.
Handle large data sets in cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, Alibaba Cloud, or Azure.
Integrate internal and external systems to ensure seamless functionality and interoperability.
Participate in on-call rotations to address complex issues and maintain service availability.

What we're looking for

3+ years of backend software development experience
Proficiency in object-oriented programming languages (Java, C++, Go, etc.)
Expertise in web standards and API technologies (REST, SOAP, JSON)
Experience with Spring, gRPC, REST, and HTTP protocol
Participation in Agile development methodologies and on-call rotations