Senior Software Engineer

Salesforce

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Palo Alto, CASeattle, WABellevue, WASan Francisco, CA
Salary: $117,200–$223,900 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 12 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $171k

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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 · Senior Software Engineer

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As a Senior Software Engineer on the Salesforce Trust Platform team, you will build and ship production-grade software focused on providing foundational security, availability, compliance, and resilience for the Agentic Enterprise. You will design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate into human workflows, architect backend services that integrate Large Language Models via external APIs, and implement robust observability frameworks to monitor long-running jobs. Your daily work involves evaluating code for quality and security while developing test automation and quality tooling. The role requires over four years of professional Java development experience and an AI-first approach using tools like GitHub Copilot or Cursor. Required skills include designing RESTful APIs, working with AWS services such as S3, Lambda, and DynamoDB, utilizing Bazel or Maven in a monorepo, and managing Docker containers within Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.

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Median $214000 from 925 postings across 71 companies.

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Skills

Java LLMs AWS S3 STS KMS Lambda DynamoDB TypeScript Python RESTful APIs Bazel Maven Docker CI/CD Jenkins JSON

What you'll do

Build and ship production-grade software using AI tools to ensure high-quality, secure code.
Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate into human workflows at scale.
Architect and maintain backend services that integrate Large Language Models via external APIs.
Implement robust observability frameworks including logs, metrics, and traces for long-running AI jobs.
Critically evaluate both human and AI-generated code for correctness, security, and performance.
Develop test automation and quality tooling for unit testing, CI generation, and flake analysis.
Design and test system prompts to produce structured, parseable LLM outputs like JSON.

What we're looking for

4+ years of professional Java development experience.
Demonstrated AI-first approach to engineering using tools like Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor.
Ability to design, iterate on, and test system and user prompts for structured LLM outputs.
Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs with knowledge of AWS services (S3, STS, KMS, Lambda, DynamoDB).
Experience with Bazel or Maven and willingness to work in a monorepo.
Experience with Jenkins or equivalent CI/CD pipelines, Docker image creation, and container operations.
Experience with TypeScript (Node) and/or Python service development (preferred).

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