Full Stack Engineer - Senior/Lead - Office of the CEO

The Experience:

This role sits at the heart of the Office of the CEO organization, inside the AI Trust and Governance engineering team — the group making sure Salesforce’s AI is powerful and trustworthy. As a Senior/Lead Software Engineer, you’ll bring hands-on technical leadership across architecture, platform innovation, and large-scale distributed systems.

You’ll team up with engineering, product, architecture, and platform partners to design and build scalable, cloud-native services that power Salesforce’s AI Trust and Governance mission. As a senior/lead IC, you’ll set the technical direction, mentor engineers, tackle thorny technical challenges, and raise the bar for the whole team.

If you’re well-versed and passionate about Core and near-Core systems, systems programming, and building highly concurrent, highly scalable, resilient systems, this is the team for you.

You’re Our Person If

AI-first mindset:

• Strong orientation toward leveraging AI-driven tools, automation, and intelligent workflows to supercharge developer productivity, system capabilities, and product value.

Adaptable and results-driven:

• Adapt quickly to shifting requirements, priorities, and strategies in a fast-moving environment built on Salesforce Core, partnering with teams such as Data Cloud and AI Platform.
• Lead the design and development of cutting-edge AI system functionality.

Ownership and leadership:

• Design new architecture to solve complex scalability problems.
• Build comprehensive functional and system-level tests for your area.
• Take features end-to-end and drive the design and architecture decisions that shape them.

Strong collaboration skills:

• A proactive team player who engages across teams to drive solutions and improvements.
• Investigates issues through debugging and root cause analysis to diagnose defects.
• Takes an active role in the release and deployment process.
• The Multiplier Effect: Guide MTS/AMTS engineers through mentorship and code/design reviews, elevating the team’s overall craft.

Qualifications

• BS or higher degree in Computer Science.
• 4+ years industry experience in system or database internals programming.
• 4+ years 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.
• An innovator’s mindset with strong problem-solving skills and a results-oriented attitude.
• Ability to learn fast and deliver high quality code in a fast-paced, dynamic agile team environment.
• Strong Java or C programming skills.

Even Better If:

• Strong oral and written communication skills, with proven cross-team collaboration experience.
• Comfortable juggling multiple projects, hitting deadlines, and rolling with shifting priorities.
• A team-first mentality - you celebrate the win as much as the assist.
• The ability to turn strategic goals into concrete technical plans and architecture.
• Experience with the Salesforce platform (Apex, LWC, Data Cloud), or the hustle to learn it fast.
• Hands-on experience with Salesforce Agentforce or Agent Builder.
• Skilled at critically evaluating code, human- or AI-generated for correctness, quality, security, and performance through rigorous review.