Lead Software Engineer, Enterprise Agents

Salesforce

Confirmed live yesterday High trust

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$172,500–$260,100 / yr
Posted
16 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

Market check

Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $208k
This role $216k
$162k most similar roles pay here $271k

This role pays more than 69% of similar roles. Most pay $192,050–$224,325 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $216k versus about $208k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

About Salesforce

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

Salesforce currently has 106 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $148,500–$260,100 across 98 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Salesforce

At a glance

TL;DR · Lead Software Engineer, Enterprise Agents

Lead Software Engineer - Enterprise Agents joins the team building enterprise-grade AI agents for general availability. This role involves owning the architecture, design, and delivery of production agent capabilities while ensuring reliability, security, and observability across backend systems, APIs, and data layers. The engineer will develop orchestration patterns to integrate AI agents into human workflows, maintain shared system contexts including guardrails, and manage the technical path toward product launch. Key responsibilities include debugging complex issues, mentoring others on agent architecture, and collaborating cross-functionally to ship features. Required skills include 8+ years of experience with production agent systems, proficiency in OOP languages like Java, Python, or C++, and expertise in SQL/NoSQL databases, REST/GraphQL APIs, and LLM integration. The role requires advanced prompt engineering and a deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud infrastructure to solve complex enterprise-scale problems.

What you'll do

  • Architect, design, and deliver production-grade software systems including scalable Agent capabilities.
  • Write high-quality, maintainable code across services, APIs, and data layers.
  • Design orchestration patterns for integrating AI Agents into human and system workflows securely.
  • Build and maintain shared system contexts to ensure accurate and reliable Agent behavior.
  • Define technical readiness criteria and resolve architecture gaps to meet General Availability timelines.
  • Debug and troubleshoot complex issues across the stack from infrastructure to application logic.
  • Evaluate code and Agent behavior for correctness, security, and performance.
  • Mentor others on software engineering practices and specific Agent architecture patterns.

What we're looking for

  • A related technical degree or equivalent hands-on experience is required.
  • 8+ years of professional software development experience including production experience architecting and shipping Agent-based systems.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and API/service design.
  • Proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language such as Java, JavaScript, C++, C#, Ruby, or Python.
  • Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases, REST/GraphQL API design, and building scalable backend services.
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software delivery practices.
  • Proven experience with Agent orchestration frameworks, tool-calling patterns, and LLM integration in production environments.
  • Advanced prompt engineering skills and a demonstrated AI-first engineering approach using tools like Claude Code or GitHub Copilot.
  • Experience taking an Agent product from build to GA at enterprise scale (preferred).
  • Experience with Agile software development, test-driven development, and large-scale multi-tenant SaaS platforms (preferred).

More like this

Similar roles

Full-Stack Software Engineer

Salesforce

San Francisco, CA 33 days ago $96,300$313,700
Prompt Engineering Python JavaScript NodeJS Express C++ C# Ruby HTML5 CSS SQL PL/SQL JUnit JSUnit Selenium GitHub Copilot Claude Code Codex Cursor Agile
3+ yrs exp Hybrid

Senior Member of Technical Staff, AI Research

Salesforce

Remote (Palo Alto, CA) 135 days ago $148,500$223,900
Python C++ Java LLMs Agentic Workflows Deep Learning Frameworks Docker AWS GCP Azure Prompt Engineering System Design Data Structures Algorithms Distributed Training GitHub Copilot Claude Code Cursor
Remote

Senior Member of Technical Staff AI Research

Salesforce

Remote (Palo Alto, CA) 32 days ago $172,500$260,100
Python C++ Java LLM Machine Learning Deep Learning Docker AWS GCP Azure Prompt Engineering System Design Data Structures Algorithms Distributed Training GitHub Copilot Claude Code
Remote

Senior Lead Software Engineer, Agentic AI

JPMorgan Chase

Jersey City, NJ 2 days ago
Agentic AI LLMs Python Java LangGraph Semantic Kernel CrewAI AWS Microservices RESTful APIs GraphQL gRPC Docker Kubernetes CI/CD Infrastructure as Code NoSQL Relational Databases Prompt Engineering Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5+ yrs exp