Principal Backend Engineer, Agentforce for Supply Chain

Salesforce

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Remote · New York - New York City Metro · Boston, MA · Bellevue, WA · San Francisco, CA Posted 15 days ago $197,300–$313,700 / year
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TL;DR

As a Principal Systems Engineer for the Agentforce for Supply Chain – Super Agent team at Salesforce, you will be the most senior technical individual contributor responsible for diagnosing and prioritizing foundational investments across the backend. You’ll tackle complex system challenges such as architectural decomposition, cross-team interface design, and state management, while ensuring observability and reliability. With deep expertise in backend engineering, including data modeling, database performance tuning, API design, and fault tolerance, you will collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to shape requirements and balance delivery against foundational investments. You’ll also mentor junior engineers, set high standards for system quality, and help the team navigate the rapid evolution of a startup-scale platform within Salesforce’s global infrastructure.

Skills

Golang GraphQL PostgreSQL Salesforce Kubernetes Docker CI/CD AWS Terraform Prometheus Git RESTful_APIs JSON Scalability Reliability Maintainability Workflow_Engines Microservices Observability

What you'll do

  • Diagnose and prioritize foundational investments across the Super Agent backend.
  • Own and solve cross-cutting system problems, including architectural decomposition and interface design.
  • Build frameworks and observability for assessing system health and risk.
  • Raise engineering quality standards to prevent regressions and maintain code health.
  • Mentor engineers in backend architecture and system design to enhance team performance.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience as a backend engineer in large-scale web application development.
  • Deep expertise in data modeling, database performance tuning, state management, API design, and system scalability.
  • Proven ability to diagnose architectural issues and prioritize technical investments for measurable improvement.
  • Experience designing interfaces between teams and systems to enhance collaboration and efficiency.
  • Strong writing skills and capability to lead real-time technical discussions effectively.
  • Track record of working closely with Product Managers to shape requirements and balance product delivery with foundational investment.
  • Demonstrated ownership, accountability, and a commitment to high standards in engineering practices.

Market check

Salary context

This $197,300–$313,700 range sits above 88% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$168,000–$234,200

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$165,000–$232,000

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

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 66 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $148,500–$260,100 across 59 roles with salary data.

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