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Salesforce · 1 day ago

Backend Software Development Engineer - Mid/Senior/Lead/Principal

positionAustin, TX
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
seniorityMid, Senior Level, Lead/Staff
money$126K/yr - $307K/yr
date3+ years exp

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. The role involves backend application development, designing and implementing robust APIs, and working with large data sets in the cloud.

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Responsibilities

Backend application development for Marketing/Commerce/Sales/Big Data/Service/Einstein/MuleSoft/Platform/Industries Clouds/Slack and Heroku
Design, implement, and tune robust APIs and API framework related features that perform and scale in a multi-tenant environment
Experience handling large data sets in the cloud (e.g. GCP, AWS, Alibaba and/or Azure platforms)
Integration with internal/external systems
Test driven development practices as well as CI/CD tools and its usage
For Big Data roles: Working with Phoenix, HBase, MapReduce, Yarn, Kafka, Spark, Hive, Presto, or equivalent large-scale distributed systems technologies on a modern containerized deployment stack

Qualification

Backend application developmentObject oriented programmingAPIsAPI frameworkCloud platforms experienceTest driven developmentAgile development methodologyJavaRESTC++GoC#RubyScalaPythonNode.JSJavaScriptSOAPXMLWSDLHTTPJSONSpringGRPC

Required

A related technical degree required
3+ years backend software development experience
Deep knowledge of object oriented programming languages: Java, C++, Go, C#, Ruby, Scala, Python, Node.JS, or JavaScript
Broad knowledge of web standards relating to APIs such as REST, SOAP, XML, WSDL, HTTP, JSON, etc
Experience with Spring, gRPC, REST and the HTTP protocol
Experience with Agile development methodology
Participate in the team's on-call rotation to address complex problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available
Office-Flex: work in-person three days per week; or 10 days per quarter for some engineering teams

Benefits

Wellbeing reimbursement
Generous parental leave
Adoption assistance
Fertility benefits
Time off programs
Medical
Dental
Vision
Mental health support
Paid parental leave
Life and disability insurance
401(k)
Employee stock purchasing program

Company

Salesforce

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Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.
dateFounded in 1999
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size10001+ employees
web-link
https://www.salesforce.com

H1B Sponsorship

Salesforce has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1883)
2024 (2296)
2023 (1850)
2022 (2849)
2021 (2124)
2020 (1960)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$65.38M
Key Investors
Starboard ValueEmergence CapitalHalsey Minor
2022-10-18Post Ipo Equity
2004-06-23IPO
2003-01-01Series Unknown· $1M

Leadership Team

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Arundhati Bhattacharya
CEO & Chairperson, Salesforce India and South Asia
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Marc Benioff
Chair & CEO
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