Senior Lead Full Stack Software Engineer

Salesforce

Confirmed live yesterday High trust
Closes in 4 days

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Francisco, CADenver, COSeattle, WABellevue, WA
Salary
$148,500–$260,100 / yr
Posted
8 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Sep 21, 2026 (soon)

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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

Salesforce currently has 106 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Lead Full Stack Software Engineer

As a Senior/Lead Full Stack Software Engineer within the AI Trust and Governance engineering team, you will provide technical leadership across architecture, platform innovation, and large-scale distributed systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners to design and build scalable, cloud-native services that power the company's mission for trustworthy AI. Your daily responsibilities include setting technical direction, mentoring engineers through code reviews, solving complex scalability problems, and developing comprehensive functional and system-level tests. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, consensus algorithms, and highly concurrent multi-threaded data structures. You will utilize Java or C programming skills to develop core and near-core systems. The work focuses on the technical challenges of AI trust and governance, specifically building infrastructure for high-concurrency environments while ensuring system reliability and performance within a fast-paced agile development framework.

What you'll do

  • Design and build scalable, cloud-native services for AI Trust and Governance systems.
  • Lead the design of new architectures to solve complex scalability problems.
  • Develop high-performance, concurrent, and resilient distributed systems using Java or C.
  • Perform root cause analysis and debugging to diagnose and resolve system defects.
  • Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and technical guidance to improve team craft.
  • Manage features end-to-end by making critical design and architecture decisions.
  • Create comprehensive functional and system-level tests for assigned product areas.
  • Translate strategic goals into concrete technical plans and architectural designs.

What we're looking for

  • BS or higher degree in Computer Science.
  • 4+ years of industry experience in system or database internals programming.
  • 4+ years of technical leadership in architecture and design of enterprise server platform or systems.
  • Deep expertise with distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
  • Experience with highly concurrent multi-threaded/multi-process data structures and design.
  • Strong Java or C programming skills.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills, with proven cross-team collaboration experience (preferred).
  • Experience with the Salesforce platform, Agentforce, or Agent Builder (preferred).

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